Poll: Voters Feel Disconnected, Helpless in 2016

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Poll: Voters Feel Disconnected, Helpless in 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016 02:11 PM

By: By STEVE PEOPLES and EMILY SWANSON

Republicans and Democrats feel a massive disconnect with their political parties and helpless about the presidential election.

That's according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall.

"It feels like the state of politics is generally broken," said Joe Denother, a 37-year-old Oregon voter who typically favors Republicans.

The divisive primary season has fueled an overall sense of pessimism about the political process that underscores a widening chasm between political parties and the voters they claim to represent. Just 12 percent of Republicans think the GOP is very responsive to ordinary voters, while 25 percent of Democrats say the same of their party.

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I hold an overall sense of pessimism about this country in general.  Washington is a joke; we only have a handful of Congressmen who are actually working on behalf of "We the People" ... the rest of them aren't worth squat.  In fact they are a detriment to our country.