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Not much else available but the numbers, not even at KATU, but they speak for themselves: Do you approve or disapprove of the job Gordon Smith is doing as United States Senator? Approve 38% Disapprove 56% Not Sure 6%
No one has a better handle on Senate approval than Survey USA. They do it monthly, although strangely they semed to have taken this summer off, not reporting in June or July (these calls were done in mid-August). And in over three years of (mostly) monthly polling, Smith has never been anywhere NEAR this low. As you can see from the tracking graph, it goes all the way back to May of 2005, and the next-worst rating is 45% approval, recorded with the last prior sample, May of this year. Smith has flirted with the mid 40s before, but for the most part it has hovered in the low 50s, with dips right at 50%. So this is a five month sagging of Smith's approvals, from 50-40 (+10) in April, to the first-ever negative approval at -2 (45-47), following three months later by this whopping -18 ratio, a stunning twenty-eight point drop in four months, over three surveys. Perhaps this poll is noise, and there's further slackening from May's narrow deficit but not THAT much, or maybe it's even crawled back to the positive. But if it's not noise--if September's ratio shows a negative even in the high single digits, then he's definitely taken a major hit over the summer. Why? {more}
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