Governor McAuliffe has had high approval numbers but they have declined since he began campaigning for Hillary. His approval rating has dropped from 58% to 53% and his disapproval ratings have increased from 24% to 29%. McAuliffe ranks 15th in approval/disapproval percentages.
Compare those numbers to Maryland where Republican Larry Hogan has a 70% approval rating with only 17% disapproving. A Republican in the very Blue state of Maryland! Hogan is second only to South Dakota where Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard has a 74% approval rating with a mere 15% disapproving.
In North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) has lost 4% in approval, down from 50% to 46%, while he gained 6% in disapproval, 38% to 44%. It’s likely the ‘bathroom bill’ in North Carolina is affecting his numbers. The left is desperate to have men in girls bathrooms and locker rooms and Governor McCrory is in opposition.
Among the top 10 Governors with the highest approval ratings only two are Democrats. (Governor McAuliffe ranks 15th.) The same is true with disapproval rankings, Republicans hold 8 of the top 10 in that category too. That’s not surprising since Republicans dominate in the number of Governors, 31 are Republicans, 18 are Democrats, and 1 is independent.
See the list of all Governors and their approval/disapproval numbers here.
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It helps that our Governor has a Republican General Assembly that does not let him do hardly anything he wants to do. If the Governor was able to govern the way he wanted to govern, I doubt he would be so popular.
Is 15th a typo? I’m looking at it and he appears to be 25th. Even at 25th, I can’t believe Governor 47 Proof ranks that highly. You’d have to go back and find one of those staunch Democrat segregationist governors to find one worse.
Count from the bottom up. The most popular Governors are on the bottom.
I looked at it differently. I sorted by approval percentage from top to bottom. There, he came in 25th. If he came in 49th, he came in too high.
The chart should have done that way.