New poll: LePage remains among least popular governors

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

Good morning from Augusta, where there is a gap between Gov. Paul LePage’s 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 LePage’s 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.

LePage’s 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. Wow! Shocking news. Not.

[Kip Humphrey]

2. So, for how many more years do we not recognize that the repeated re-election of grossly unpopular

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]

3. Seems to be more the Fault of a 3rd Party in Maine Mucking Things Up

and diluting the vote that always votes Democratic in Presidential Election.

[Red State Prisoner]

4. Ding ding ding...

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]

5. Not surprised. n/t

[13Dogs]

6. Election Result Not Consistent with Polls

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]

9. Wasn't there an independent or 3rd party candidate?

May explain LePage's win.

[FLPanhandle]

7. How did he ever beat out Rick Scott?

Or as we like to call him Voldemort

[left-of-center2012]

8. 8 of top 10 are Republican ?

How the heck did that happen!?