February poll is out and wanted to run down the job approval ratings we tested:
President Obama:
Strongly approve – 36% (+3 from January)
Somewhat approve – 29 (+2)
Somewhat disapprove – 5 (+2)
Strongly disapprove – 11 (+8)
Not sure – 19 (-15)
Net approval rating 48% (-7)
Full release here.
Governor Perdue
Strongly approve – 16% (+1)
Somewhat approve – 36 (+4)
Somewhat disapprove – 9 (+6)
Strongly disapprove – 7 (+2)
Not sure – 32 (-13)
Net approval rating 36% (-4)
Full release here.
Senator Kay Hagan
Strongly approve – 12%
Somewhat approve – 29
Somewhat disapprove – 7
Strongly disapprove – 9
Not Sure 43
Net approval rating 25%
Full release here.
Obama is still getting high marks from NC voters. The number of people approving of his job ticked up 5 points to 65% however the number of people disapproving nearly tripled. Still 19 percent of the voters with no opinion. I would guess that those are people who disapprove but don't want to seem to say anything bad about the new President.
Perdue's numbers remain strong as well with a 5 point bump in total approve to 52%. But like Obama, disapproves shot up 8 points as well.
Hagan's was probably the most surprising because of the large number of people with no opinion. Despite just going through a tough election fight, people don't really have an opinion of her. Out of sight, out of mind, perhaps?
I have an extremely unfavorable opinion of Kay Hagan, Bev Perdue and Barack Obama. Too bad I wasn’t polled.
Thanks for posting the poll results.
Way to insert guess work into a scientifically conducted poll. Don’t y’all pay big bucks for real people to poll so that you get better results?
Another possibility for the “not sure” voters would be those that…aren’t sure. Either because they don’t pay attention to what’s going on, or because they haven’t seen enough yet to form an opinion.