Markell Scores High in Latest Polling
Morning Consult, a new outfit this cylce that has been performing national polling of the both presidential primaries, has turned its eyes to polling on all the nation’s Governors. Morning Consult’s surveys were conducted between May and November and asked 76,569 registered voters in all 50 states whether they approve or disapprove of their governor’s job performance. The sample sizes vary by state, from 6,696 registered California voters to 198 voters registered in Wyoming; margins of error vary by sample size. The median sample size was 1,172 respondents. Delaware’s sample size was 568 with a 4% margin of error.
All that said, Governor Jack Markell has a 61% approval rating. 25% disapprove. He is the third most popular Democratic Governor, after Minnesota’s Mark Dayton and West Virginia’s Earl Ray Tomblin, and the 12th most popular in the country.
We don’t know when the poll was taken between May and November, so grain of salt time, not that much has occurred to make the Governor go up or down during that time.
Must be the bike paths. It surely isn’t his clean water initiative that blew up on the launch pad.
Maybe they only polled the management teams from JP Morgan, or Bloom or Astra-Zeneca or Dupont or Johnson Controls or RODEL or Microsoft or Innovative Schools or TFA or any of the dozens of taxpayer gifted consultants and conglomerates that have one hand out begging and the other in the taxpayers wallet taking.
Representative John Kowalko
Are there any other Governors in their last year in that poll near Markell’s numbers? Easy enough to have high ratings after a big first election.
It’s pretty impressive given he’s a bald version of Scott Walker…
Really? Howzabout you list all the similarities?
It’s the teflon coating on the head.
Today’s News Journal notes what everyone should already know: while poverty and hunger in the Delaware are increasing, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits (and, although the article does not say it, the amount of those benefits) are steadily decreasing. Almost 25% of our population is on Medicaid.
According to last year’s KidsFirst report, child poverty in Delaware has risen in the Markell administration from about 14.5 to around 21%.
You know better than to blame that on Markell.
Why don’t members of the Delaware legislator make an issue of the obvious cronyism in state contracts really dig into some of this?
Steve Newton, that has more to do with the fact that in 2009 there was the greatest financial crisis since the depression. Banks reduced staff. Delaware lost Chrysler, GM, and Valero just as he took office. Which caused the numbers you are attempting to leave at his doorstep.