More than half of all Americans would vote to replace every single member of Congress — including their own — according to a poll released Thursday by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.
Fifty-six percent said they would rid Congress of every member if given the opportunity, the highest percentage in the poll's history. Resentment toward legislators is bipartisan, with 55 percent of liberals, 55 percent of centrists and 58 percent of conservatives all willing to clean house.
That's especially notable because voters are traditionally willing to vote out other districts' members of Congress, but have a high opinion of their own.
Attitudes are particularly tough for congressional Republicans, where more than twice as many — 31 percent — believed that the GOP had brought the "wrong kind" of change versus only 12 percent who thought it had brought the right kind.
Those attitudes represent a substantial drop from just last year, when a quarter of respondents believed Republicans were doing the right thing and only two in 10 said they were bringing the wrong type of change. It also represents a historic drop relative to Democrats retaking the House in 2006 or the Republican Revolution of 1994.