New poll: LePage remains among least popular governors
Source: Bangor Daily News
Good morning from Augusta, where there is a gap between Gov. Paul LePages performance in the 2014 election and his approval rating in a new poll released by the Morning Consult.
The online poll, which claims a margin of error of 5 percent, pegged LePages approval rating at 38 percent, with 58 percent of respondents surveyed between January and May of this year saying they disapprove of LePage. Four percent were undecided. Those numbers are nearly identical to what a Morning Consult poll found in November 2015.
LePages approval rating is about 10 points off from his tally in the 2014 election, when more than 48 percent of voters re-elected him.
LePage has been interested in polls lately. He noted in a press release on Tuesday that only 6 percent of the public has any confidence in the media, citing an Associated Press story from April.
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Ouch indeed...
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)governors and federal elected officials is indicative of electronic vote theft (election fraud) occurring at the electronic vote tabulator level and repeatedly indicated by anomalous exit polls?
1 more year? 4 more years? 10 more years? 20 more years? Or never?
Stallion
(6,476 posts)and diluting the vote that always votes Democratic in Presidential Election.
Red State Prisoner
(138 posts)Exactly! I live in Texas, but I spend quite a bit of time in Maine during the summer. From everything I've gathered, these 3rd party candidates are nothing more than conservative shills deliberately siphoning a critical portion of the liberal vote. While I'd love to believe that we liberals know better, one only has to see how many of us (particularly here in Austin) flock to candidates like Ron Paul and his "revolution". It would appear, unfortunately, that Mainers are really no different in this regard.
SpankMe
(2,958 posts)13Dogs
(45 posts)I've lived in Maine for over 50 years and I was shocked when it was reported that LePage had won the election with 48% of the vote, because he had never polled above the high 30's at any other point in time.
Now, we find that his approval is back where it always has been, at a ceiling of less than 38%. Makes me wonder if the polls weren't dead accurate all along and it's the election result that was manipulated to ensure his victory. I know for certain, that he is despised by the majority of Mainers, so the election result never rang true to me. While I know manipulating the electronic vote has happened in several other elections, flipping the election to the person who actually lost, (most notably Ohio in 2004), I never believed that it would happen in Maine. It's possible I may have been mistaken...
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)May explain LePage's win.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Or as we like to call him Voldemort
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)How the heck did that happen!?