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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:05 PM Feb 2019

Virginia Voters Quickly Sour on Northam Amid Blackface Scandal






Voters in Virginia have soured on Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) in the immediate aftermath of the blackface scandal that has many leaders, including top Democrats, calling for him to resign.

Morning Consult tracking found a 41-percentage-point drop in Northam’s net approval rating — the share of voters who approve of his job performance minus the share of those who don’t — in the two days after a page surfaced from the governor’s 1984 medical school yearbook showing a picture of one person in blackface and another dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

The polling of 291 Virginia voters, which was conducted Feb. 2-3 and has a 6-point margin of error, found 48 percent disapproving of his job performance, up 22 points from a Jan. 1-30 survey of 4,326 Virginia voters that had a 1-point margin of error. His approval in the latest poll was 29 percent, down 19 points from the prior survey.

https://morningconsult.com/2019/02/04/virginia-voters-quickly-sour-on-northam-amid-blackface-scandal/

His numbers among independents is awful.
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Virginia Voters Quickly Sour on Northam Amid Blackface Scandal (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 OP
Clearly they haven't gotten word.... doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #1
I can't believe this obstinate clown hasn't resigned yet. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #2
I can believe that... doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #3
Now that the people and leaders have abandoned him what is his rationale for staying? DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #4
Maybe he's been a GOP plant all along? doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #7
Well, he was a Republican until 2007. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #10
That's what I'm saying.... doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #13
Four things DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #15
I hadn't heard about the second yearbook. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #5
Yes, his VMI yearbook.... doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #8
The over/under was 1.5 yearbooks with reference to "Coonman" Awsi Dooger Feb 2019 #9
You just made me laugh out loud. yardwork Feb 2019 #11
Thanks a lot! doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #14
Wow 73 percent of Virginia Republicans disapprove FakeNoose Feb 2019 #6
They're opportunists. We discount them. yardwork Feb 2019 #12
 

doompatrol39

(428 posts)
1. Clearly they haven't gotten word....
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:19 PM
Feb 2019

...that this is all a right win smear job.

What his attempted moonwalking didn't impress them?

Or his advice on how difficult shoe polish is to get off of one's face?

Or the fact that the nickname "Coonman" appears in not one, but TWO yearbooks of his?

I swear, some people are so hard to please.

 

doompatrol39

(428 posts)
3. I can believe that...
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:09 PM
Feb 2019

I'm having a harder time believing the number of apologists and conspiracy theorists here on DU.

 

doompatrol39

(428 posts)
7. Maybe he's been a GOP plant all along?
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:35 PM
Feb 2019

Honestly, that's no more ridiculous (and probably more evidence supporting it) than some of what's been thrown around on here the past few days.

And for clarification, no I don't believe he's been a GOP plant all along. I'm not some conspiracy nut.

 

doompatrol39

(428 posts)
13. That's what I'm saying....
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:01 PM
Feb 2019

....while I don't necessarily believe this is anything more than a racist having it bite him in the ass, there's actually far more evidence at the ready to realistically claim he was a Republican plant all along than there is that Republicans are somehow making all of this up for their own gain.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
15. Four things
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:04 PM
Feb 2019

1) Stick around
2) I have been here sixteen years, well not sixteen years literally
3) The plant suggestion is in jest
4) He's killing us.

 

doompatrol39

(428 posts)
8. Yes, his VMI yearbook....
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:35 PM
Feb 2019

...also lists his nickname as "Coonman". Mercifully, no blackface or Klan costume. He saved that for his Medical school yearbook

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
9. The over/under was 1.5 yearbooks with reference to "Coonman"
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:44 PM
Feb 2019

So the over cashed, unlike the Super Bowl

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
6. Wow 73 percent of Virginia Republicans disapprove
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:23 PM
Feb 2019

... the same people who never say a word about the racist bigot who occupies the White House.
Truly amazing!

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