Despite the federal government shutdown, which is massively screwing up life for thousands of people (including those of us who wanted to go to the National Postal Museum last weekend), a handful of registered voters still have a higher opinion of Congress than they do of Miley Cyrus.

This poll, naturally, comes from Public Policy Polling, the North Carolina-based group also behind the survey that found 41 percent of Virginia residents pronounce ‘GIF’ with a hard “g.” Of the 502 voters surveyed between October 4 and 6, 86 percent disapprove of the job Congress is doing, eight percent approve and six percent aren’t quite sure how they feel.

Makes sense! Now comes the fun part: PPP asked the voters to compare Congress against a number of people and things, and say which they have a higher opinion of.

Congress is better liked than Miley Cyrus, Vladamir Putin, Anthony Weiner, the Ebola virus, Charles Manson, Lindsay Lohan, Honey Boo Boo, heroin, Syria and twerking. It’s not as liked as Wall Street, witches, hemorrhoids, jury duty, dog poop, toenail fungus, cockroaches, the IRS, mothers-in-law, the Department of Motor Vehicles, potholes, public radio fundraising drives, hipsters and zombies.

It’s not known how the voters feel about Cyrus when she’s dressed as Sarah Palin Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and twerking. Probably not great.