Teflon?
By Mitch Berg
A current of change is sweeping Minnesota. Upset with the status quo, choked with rage (stoked by a media that is in the bag for the DFL), surfing a wave of audacious hopefulness, Minnesotans want Tim Pawlenty chased from offices with pitchforks and torches…
A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll found that 54 percent of adults in the state approve of the Republican Pawlenty’s job performance
Er…ooops?
His approval rating remains above the 50-percent level, which is considered the danger threshold for a politician. And it’s in the same general range where Minnesotans have graded Pawlenty since he began his first term in 2003.
It also remains above the 45-and-small-change range, which was what he won on the “three-way” election of 2006 (where the “Independence” party soaked up a thin film of mostly-DFL votes).
But it represents a dip from the fall, when 59 percent of Minnesotans approved of his job performance.
Which was after the bridge collapse – a time when most people rally around their leaders, and where Pawlenty did by any rational measure an excellent job.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:50 am
The spin is a little too obvious, but not surprising. Can’t wait to see them try to explain it when Norm Coleman is reelected.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Didja get a good deal on that cherry-picker? From
yesterday:
The poll has a long history of comic inaccuracy…
It’s another season; it’s another chapter in the book “How Worthless is the MNPoll?”
Er…ooops?
May 20th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Nope.
I take ALL MNPoll results with a
grainblock of salt. If the MNPoll shows Pawlenty at 54, the odds are good that he’s really a 60+.May 20th, 2008 at 9:10 am
“Hmm, this gun shoots consistently left. There’s obviously no possible way to correct this phenomenon.”
Tim is the sort of person who shouldn’t deal with firearms.