Polls: McCrory Leads Perdue In Rematch
About 1,000 North Carolinians who are registered to vote (although might never actually do so) say they’d prefer former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory to be Governor, rather than the current occupant of the office – Bev Perdue.
Two polls released in the past week support what everyone in NC politics already assumes: That Governor Perdue is a dead woman walking … and that she has been since candidate Barack Obama dragged her listless political body across the finish line in 2008.
The first poll is from the liberal outfit Public Policy Polling – which doesn’t exactly inspire a lot of confidence, as some local Democratic strategists believe the organization’s 2010 numbers left a bit of a “mess in the bed.” PPP finds the Democrat incumbent trailing the likely Republican challenger by 11 points (48% – 38%). She was trailing him by 14 points at the beginning of 2011.
What’s funny is how the folks at PPP are spinning this. The headline of the news release is “Perdue cuts into McCrory lead.” The statement starts off with: “North Carolina voters’ opinion of Governor Bev Perdue’s job performance is at its best since January.”
Well huzzah, huzzah!! Who knew that a 35-49 approval-disapproval ranking was so fantastic? While the Governor enjoys a 2-1 margin of support among Democrats (they love it when she vetoes bills by the evil GOP), her support among the Republicans is an anemic 13%.
But the most frightening thing for her re-election campaign must be the independents, who disapprove of her (27 – 57). They don’t like her much at all. Now, PPP tries to spin this as just another sad sign of the times, saying she cannot “…rely on the crutch of bipartisanship in this bitterly divided climate.”
So, it’s the CLIMATE. That’s why independents don’t approve of her. Right.
That same poll notes that Bev Perdue is among the least popular governors in America. Dang climate.
The second poll that confirms the dreadful PPP numbers comes from the conservative Civitas Institute, which finds McCrory would beat her 51% – 39%. She’s down double digits among independents, too (53% – 42%).
Her approval stands at 40% while disapproval is 52%. Whites don’t like her performance (22% – 58%) but blacks do (60% – 33%). Of particular concern, again, is that independents give her low approval marks (39% – 53%).
I might add her disapproval numbers are higher than her approval numbers in every part of the state – except Raleigh. Naturally.
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