{"id":38339,"date":"2013-09-13T07:54:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38339"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:54:55","slug":"dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38339","title":{"rendered":"Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Messinger’s<\/del> Daytons’ approval ratings – the media says – have dipped<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Survey USA shows the Governor at a 47 percent approval rating:<\/p>\n

Significantly, however, the September approval rating is down 9 percentage points since May of 2012. Back then, when Dayton was still grappling with a Republican controlled Legislature, the governor’s approval rating was 56 percent in the SurveyUSA poll.<\/p>\n

The dip was particularly glaring among Democrats:<\/p>\n

According to the SurveyUSA poll, Dayton went from an 80 percent approval rating among self-identified Democrats in May of last year and February of this year to 67 percent approval rating. The pollster said that segment of the poll had a plus or minus 6.7 percentage point margin of sampling error.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And naturally, the Strib poll – which has a long history of comical inaccuracy<\/a> – differs:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Star Tribune’s polling over the past two years do not track with the SurveyUSA polling. The latest Minnesota Poll, which had a margin of sampling error ofplu sor minus 3.5 percentage points, was taken in June and found Dayton’s approval rating was 57 percent. That was up from 45 percent in\u00a0February of this year and 53 percent in September of last year in Star Tribune polling numbers.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Strib’s poll, Democrats approved of Dayton overwhelmingly – which would appear to be a major difference in the two polls.<\/p>\n

That, and SUSA having a track record of relative accuracy, or at least not being utterly comical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Messinger’s Daytons’ approval ratings – the media says – have dipped. Survey USA shows the Governor at a 47 percent approval rating: Significantly, however, the September approval rating is down 9 percentage points since May of 2012. Back then, when Dayton was still grappling with a Republican controlled Legislature, the governor’s approval rating was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-poll-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38364,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339\/revisions\/38364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}