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POLITICO: Michigan’s Governor Still Ranks Near Bottom Nationally in Popularity

July 20, 2017 by tbreport Leave a Comment

The most recent of a number of surveys of the nation’s governors’ popularity finds that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder still ranks near the bottom.Snyder’s standing with Michigan voters plummeted during the widely-publicized “Flint Water Crisis” in late 2015. He’s never really recovered. A survey by the Washington, D.C. firm Morning Consult for the website Politico found earlier this year that only 40% of Michigan’s voters approved of the job Snyder was doing while 54% disapproved. Now, a new survey, covering the period from April 1 through July 10, finds similar results — only 38% approve of Snyder while 52% disapprove. That placed Snyder fifth-most unpopular among the nation’s 50 governors in both surveys.The most unpopular governor in the country was New Jersey’s Republican Governor, Chris Christie (69 percent disapprove, 25 percent approve). He was followed by Kansas’s Republican Governor, Sam Brownback (66 percent disapprove, 25 percent approve); Connecticut’s Democratic Governor, Dan Malloy (64 percent disapprove, 29 percent approve);  and Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Mary Fallin (55 percent disapprove, 35 percent approve).

In a first, the 10 most popular governors were all Republicans, according to Morning Consult. The most popular governor in the country was Massachusetts’s Republican Governor Charlie Baker (71 percent approve, 17 percent disapprove in a heavily “blue” state). Runnerup was Maryland’s GOP Governor Larry Hogan (68 percent approve, 16 percent disapprove in another “blue” state); Wyoming’s Republican Governor Matt Mead (67 percent approve, 15 percent disapprove); North Dakota’s Republican Governor Doug Burgum (66 percent approve, 15 percent disapprove); and South Dakota’s Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard (65 percent approve, 25 percent disapprove).

The survey polled 195,704 registered voters nationally online over more than a three-month period. Survey respondents were assigned to their appropriate governor based on their state of residence.The number of Michigan voters polled was 7,220. The margin of error in the Michigan portion of the survey was plus or minus 1 percentage point.

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