AJC poll: Republicans in dicey political territory in Georgia

[highplainsdem]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

After suffering major losses, Georgia Republicans enter a new election cycle in a dire political position, according to an exclusive Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll that found leading Democrats earned significantly higher ratings than their GOP counterparts.

The poll, conducted by the University of Georgia, reflects an upended political landscape after Georgia voted Democratic for president for the first time since 1992 — and then two GOP incumbents were swept in runoffs that flipped control of the U.S. Senate.

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On the cusp of a tough reelection battle, Kemp’s approval rating stands at just 42% — and his disapproval is at 51%. More than one-third of Republicans — 36% — disapprove of his performance. That’s more than quadrupled from the 8% of Republicans who held a dim view of Kemp in the AJC’s January 2020 poll.

Trump’s standing is even worse. A solid majority of Georgians disapprove of the former president in the weeks since he left office, with 57% giving him an unfavorable rating, compared with just 40% who approved of his performance in the White House.

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Read more: https://www.ajc.com/politics/ajc-poll-republicans-in-dicey-political-territory-in-georgia/IR5P2X4AK5GZ7O5BF355Q2DWRY/

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Even among Republicans, Trump's approval rating has slipped from 95% to 84%.

More results in a tweet from The Hill's Reid Wilson, which is how I found this article:

Link to tweet

Georgia favorable ratings (AJC/UGA poll):
Raph. Warnock 54 fav / 37 unfav
Joe Biden 52 / 41
Stacey Abrams 51 / 41
Jon Ossoff 50 / 40
Democratic Party 50 / 44
Republican Party 34 / 59

Job ratings:
Trump 40 approve / 58 dis
Gov. Kemp 43 / 51

[cstanleytech]

1. Polls are ok but what matters is getting the people to actually vote which we need to really focus

on getting them to do.
Otherwise we can lose the majority in the Senate or the House at any time.

[My Pet Orangutan]

5. The polls in GA are surprisingly, consistently accurate.

Ask some DU Georgians ... it's peculiar, given how far off most of the State polls were in 2020.

[Tommymac]

12. Secure, legitimate Voting Machine technologies that promote confidence are a big reason

When People know their vote IS going to count, they are more likely to vote.

TRUST and TRUTH are our allies...not Lies and Wackjob Conspiracy Theories.

Georgia proves this. 4 or 5 times in 2 months. The machines were verified and legitimatized by multiple hand counts.

[onetexan]

14. Stacey did an amazing job getting voters out this past general election and in the runoff, & why the

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results went Biden & the 2 Dem senators. Raffensberger is now SoS, unlike in 2018 when Kemp was SoS while running for governor the election was rigged to swing in his favor. With him showing poorly in the polls, my bet is Stacey will kick his butt in 2022.

[cstanleytech]

15. Agreed she did awesome. nt

[NNadir]

17. I certainly hope so. Her star is rising, and perhaps, can even go all the way someday.

She's a very impressive woman.

[groundloop]

2. Kemp sucks, but GOPers will still vote for that "R" next to his name

[stillcool]

3. Thanks Stacey...and all the Georgians

who voted for the first time. If 'we the people' vote, and those votes are counted, 'we the people' will win.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. Georgia turning blue faster than Florida and North Carolina.

I always thought the latter two were better bets for us than Georgia, maybe because Obama won them.
Looks like Stacey Abrams' hard work is paying dividends.

[My Pet Orangutan]

6. FL is trending Red.

[MRDAWG]

7. That's why the Ga Legislature is making it harder to vote.

Photo ID to request an absentee ballot and another photo ID to cast it.

[IronLionZion]

8. Turn Georgia blue again

it's funny how they have polls for Warnock and Ossoff who have only been in office a week.

We need lots more headlines about Republicans in disarray.

[Midnight Writer]

9. McConnell's approval rating in Kentucky is usually in the thirties.

Doesn't seem to matter much when Election Day rolls around.

[Turin_C3PO]

10. GA is much different than Kentucky.

In Kentucky, McConnell is hated but Democrats are more hated. In Georgia, the Dem party has a higher rating than the Repubs. Remember Trump lost GA but won Kentucky handily.

[Tommymac]

13. Georgia uses proven Dominion machines. KY uses ESS crap.

Not saying the KY election was stolen, just that I don't trust the old unsecure ESS machines one bit.

And that Dominion machines were validated 3 times in hand counts.

[CottonBear]

16. KY is much whiter & less diverse than GA.

TN is the same as KY.

[mdbl]

11. This means ther repugs will ramp up the voter supression tactics

They will come up with some dumb ass law like you have to have 2 inch fingernails to qualify to vote. And the fact that trump still has an approval rating at all shows my state is still F'd up.