Survey

I "surveyed": This graph illustrates the relationship between Party Identification and Evaluation of 111th Congress as a Whole. On the X-axis, 1 represents very liberal, 2 represents liberal, 3 represents moderate, 4 represents conservative, and 5 represents very conservative. A higher number on the y axis represents a more positive rating of the 11th Congress as a whole (the values 1-5 were used). One might expect a negative linear relationship due to the fact that the Democratic Party was in power during the 11th Congress, however the low value of r^2 shows that there is only a weak correlation between party identification and evaluation of the 111th Congress as a whole.
 * Grade || Male || Female ||
 * 9 || 8 || 11 ||
 * 10 || 2 || 2 ||
 * 11 || 9 || 5 ||
 * 12 || 3 || 16 ||
 * Other || 0 || 3 ||

Here is a bar graph of the distribution of the evaluations of the 111th Congress. A higher number represents a more positive rating of the 11th Congress as a whole (the values 1-5 were used). (The Y axis represents the number of respondents giving a particular rating.)



Note: I did not include the response: "don't know" in the two graphs above because it is a rather meaningless response in that it only would be relevant in analysis of awareness.