Survey USA: McConnell, 49% approval, 43% disapproval
Matt Gunterman March 27th, 2007
The latest Survey USA tracking poll on Sen. Mitch McConnell is out and it shows his approval holding steady from last month at 49 percent, but still in the below-50-percent red zone for incumbents. His disapproval inched up to 43 percent. The overall sampling error for the survey is ± 4.1 percent.
I’m on the go at the moment, so I can’t do much with the numbers now, but it appears that Sen. McConnell’s approval numbers have increased slightly among Republicans since last month (66 percent to 70 percent), as did both his approval (38 percent to 41 percent) and disapproval (54 percent to 55 percent) among Democrats. That increase in approval can likely be explained by movement among conservative Democrats. McConnell’s numbers among conservatives of all political affiliations went from (58 percent to 74 percent). Among independents, McConnell’s numbers are tanking: he went from 56 percent approval to 41 percent in that group.
It’s clear what McConnell’s game plan is: rally his conservative base. The problem with that? The nation and Kentucky are moving in decidedly non-conservative directions.
- 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , Mitch McConnell , Opinion Polls
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Well I think that as this Congress goes on and the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky see that Democrats are very capable of governing and are actually much more successful at governing than Republicans we’ll continue to see McConnell’s numbers continue to fall. Republicans haven’t been able to make Senator Reid into a boggy man and they haven’t been able to make Speaker Pelosi into a witch. I think Kentucky is ripe for change.