_REPUBLICANS _ !! Are Failing to Elect a Speaker, not “Congress “

We got to have a speaker, (but) I don't think we're going to have anybody soon," said George Ramge, 72, of San Diego, a building contractor and political independent. "There's a lot of Hollywood politicians out there getting their time on TV, and I don't think they're really serving the people's purpose." "They need to be functioning, and that's the only way they're going to function," said Carl Hickey, 85, of Monkton, Maryland, a retired Methodist minister and a Democrat, said in a follow-up interview after being called in the poll. Just 25% of those surveyed say they don't care whether a speaker is elected, on the theory that the impasse is preventing Congress from wasting more taxpayer money. "It's not like they do anything anyways," said Dustin Gibbons, 34, a home warranty manager from Queen Creek, Arizona, and a Republican. "I don't think that a speaker in the House is going to do anything other than, you know, just keep kicking that ball along." The poll of 1,000 registered voters, taken by landline and cell phone Tuesday through Friday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.