Thursday, May 14, 2009

Ideology and Perdue's Decline

Carter Wrenn suggests that Bev Perdue's numbers are declining because she's too liberal.

Here's how Perdue's approval rating has declined over the last four month by ideology:

Month

Approval w/ Liberals

Approval w/ Moderates

Approval w/ Conservatives

February

72

52

25

March

70

54

22

April

63

49

24

May

52

44

19


So she's had a six point drop with conservatives, an eight point drop with moderates, and a 20 point drop with liberals. Somehow I don't think being too liberal is her problem. BTW, President Obama's numbers have stayed in the same 51-54 range every month since he took office.

I think Perdue is doing as good a job as she can, but as I pointed out to News 14 yesterday Governors everywhere are seeing their approval ratings tank right along with the economy. If things get turned around Perdue will be fine and if they don't, she probably won't. That's just the reality of executive leadership in politics these days.

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