Poll Finds Malloy Is Still Unpopular
by Christine Stuart | Aug 3, 2012 7:30am
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy doesn’t pay attention to public opinion polls. If he did he’d know the latest poll shows he’s one of the most unpopular governor in the country.
A poll by Public Policy Polling showed 51 percent of voters disapprove of him, while just 33 percent approve.
Out of more than 40 sitting governors surveyed by Public Policy Polling the only ones with worse numbers are Bev Perdue of North Carolina, Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, Pat Quinn of Illinois, and Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania.
Malloy barely gets more than a 50 percent approval with Democrats. The poll found 52 percent of Democrats polled approve and 33 percent disapprove of the job he’s doing. Independents voters, who make up the majority of Connecticut voters, disapprove of him by a more than 2:1 margin, and with Republicans he has a 73 percent disapproval rating.
If Malloy was running for reelection he may have a difficult time against a Republican opponent, the poll found he would trail a GOP candidate 46 to 36 percent.
“Certainly he has plenty of time to turn it around before November 2014 but for now he’s not in a great position,” a PPP blog post says .
Who is Connecticut’s most popular politician?
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Forty-nine percent of voters approve of the job he’s doing and 36 percent disapprove. Although his poll numbers are down by a few points from a poll last September they still hover around the 50 percent mark.
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman who is about to retire from the U.S. Senate has seen his numbers improves as he exits. According to the poll 41 percent of voters approve and just 43 percent disapprove. The numbers are an improvement over a poll done in March 2011, which found 29 percent of voters approved and 58 percent disapproved.
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posted by: SalRomano | August 3, 2012 9:41am
Gov. Malloy even has a lesser job approval rating than his idol, Pres. Barack Obama, at 44%, which means the President will not be reelected.
posted by: SalRomano | August 3, 2012 8:01pm
With Gov. Malloy’s poor poll image with Connecticut voters, he assuredly went to China “to escape the heat” and take a break—at taxpayer expense.
After all, our Governor is a shrewd politician—and can’t be blamed for poor fiscal decisions, when he isn’t here to make them.
posted by: SalRomano | August 4, 2012 12:13pm
I’m sorry Tessa Marquis complained that Gov. Malloy didn’t take enough taxpayer money, in the measly $20,000. that he took for a trip that won’t pay for a first class trip for our VIP Governor. Is it against the law that the Governor spends some of his own money to cover some of his personal expenses? Also, Malloy is “robbing the state cookie jar,” to take another $2 million dollars to BOLSTER SECURITY AT THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION.
Money is no object to our Governor, and HE WOULD NOT NEED MORE SECURITY, IF HE WASN’T SPENDING TOO MUCH TAXPAYER MONEY TO START WITH!
Our “Spendaholic Gov. Malloy”—is his own worst enemy, who has realistically “dug his own political grave.”
posted by: borisvian | August 6, 2012 8:58am
Gov. Malloy certainly helped bringing the state to the 21st century, despite strong whining from the republicans. What’s new?!? Keep up the good work, Mr. Malloy. You surely have my vote.
posted by: SalRomano | August 6, 2012 11:05am
borisvian: You politically applaud Gov.(Tax and Spend)Donnel Malloy, but you failed to disclose “How Malloy helped to bring the State into the 21at century? You failed to back up your empty political theme with facts, you apparently cannot disclose—as Malloy HAS NOT HELPED to bring Connecticut into the 21at century—unless you are commending him for the bigggest spending and taxation record in the history of the State of Connecticut?