Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott has a 29% approval rating (already?)

[mercury14]

Seems he's horrible and loathed in his red state. 29% approval and a dismal 57% disapproval - even a 51% disapproval from other republicans. And he's making robo-calls in an non-election year because of it. These figures are usually reserved only for a politician who fucks his Argentinian mistress on the job.

And my Ohio Republican Gov Kasich is looking at a 33% approval/43% disapproval rating in the red state of Ohio. Recalls and referendum movements are pouring in on his unpopular policies. His Wisconsin-esque union-limiting law is drastically unpopular and voters are already backing its repeal.

http://flaglerlive.com/22544/gov-rick-scott-approval
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1601&What=&strArea=;&strTime=9

So why are Republican governors so bad in Republican states?

 

[cebalrai]

There was something on the news today about Texas gov Rick Perry's rating plummeting today to the low 40s and support for his budget is like 21%...

 

[The_Trouvere]

Seems he's horrible and loathed in his red state. 29% approval and a dismal 57% disapproval - even a 51% disapproval from other republicans. And he's making robo-calls in an non-election year because of it. These figures are usually reserved only for a politician who fucks his Argentinian mistress on the job.

And my Ohio Republican Gov Kasich is looking at a 33% approval/43% disapproval rating in the red state of Ohio. Recalls and referendum movements are pouring in on his unpopular policies. His Wisconsin-esque union-limiting law is drastically unpopular and voters are already backing its repeal.

http://flaglerlive.com/22544/gov-rick-scott-approval
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1601&What=&strArea=;&strTime=9

So why are Republican governors so bad in Republican states?

On the campaign trail Republican politicians get a lot of cheers when they talk about cutting spending. As soon as they get specific Republican voters get nervous, then angry. Republican voters overestimate the amount of money the government spends to help people they do not like, and underestimates the amount of money the government spends on them.

 

[mercury14]

On the campaign trail Republican politicians get a lot of cheers when they talk about cutting spending. As soon as they get specific Republican voters get nervous, then angry. Republican voters overestimate the amount of money the government spends to help people they do not like, and underestimates the amount of money the government spends on them.

I think also because of the recession governments have trimmed a ton of fat already. Then new Republicans who campaigned on fat trimming find mostly bone.

Also Rick Scott is instituting a bunch of illegal policies and restarting the war on drugs.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Didn't you guys already do this thread?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Rick Scott's opponent was a high ranking Bank Of America executive, her husband is a rich ambulance chaser. She was a prominent cheerleader for giving bums home loans, then selling the loans to pension funds. As the state's chief financial officer she sat on her hands and looked the other way as Florida's pension fund lost about 1/3rd of its value.

So we had a choice of voting for a thief or a fool.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Rick Scott's opponent was a high ranking Bank Of America executive, her husband is a rich ambulance chaser. She was a prominent cheerleader for giving bums home loans, then selling the loans to pension funds. As the state's chief financial officer she sat on her hands and looked the other way as Florida's pension fund lost about 1/3rd of its value.

So we had a choice of voting for a thief or a fool.

And we got both of those in Rick Scott.

This guy has dropped the ball on just about every issue possible and has completely failed to deliver on his jobs platform.

Not surprisingly he was backed by the Tea Party. Need I say more?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

seeing that one of your sources is a EDU web site, course they hate him. Scott is making them pay for THEIR healthcare and retirement. boo whooo welcome to the real world educators, life is hard suck it up.

I agree that the robo-calls are crazy and if one is on the do not call list, well one shouldn't get robo-calls.

This will be a good campaign (and yes spinning the subject), how do you feel about the "Do Not call list"?

there should be an amendment,

do not call - for all marketing but able to get political phone calls and charities
do not call - that means - no phone calls for "marketing", survey, or political bs

Seems he's horrible and loathed in his red state. 29% approval and a dismal 57% disapproval - even a 51% disapproval from other republicans. And he's making robo-calls in an non-election year because of it. These figures are usually reserved only for a politician who fucks his Argentinian mistress on the job.

And my Ohio Republican Gov Kasich is looking at a 33% approval/43% disapproval rating in the red state of Ohio. Recalls and referendum movements are pouring in on his unpopular policies. His Wisconsin-esque union-limiting law is drastically unpopular and voters are already backing its repeal.

http://flaglerlive.com/22544/gov-rick-scott-approval
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1601&What=&strArea=;&strTime=9

So why are Republican governors so bad in Republican states?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Rick Scott's opponent was a high ranking Bank Of America executive, her husband is a rich ambulance chaser. She was a prominent cheerleader for giving bums home loans, then selling the loans to pension funds. As the state's chief financial officer she sat on her hands and looked the other way as Florida's pension fund lost about 1/3rd of its value.

So we had a choice of voting for a thief or a fool.

but all that is okay, because she is a democrat. Also, she was convicted (hum, or paid fines cuz she was guilty) where Scott company had issues, but Scott didn't pay fines.

but because she was a democrat, its all good.
Scott is a republican, he must suffer

 

[unregistered]

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I think also because of the recession governments have trimmed a ton of fat already. Then new Republicans who campaigned on fat trimming find mostly bone.

Also Rick Scott is instituting a bunch of illegal policies and restarting the war on drugs.

you know nothing about "trimming fat", you come from the government world and have never been in a start up, or under "chain saw al"

there is still a ton of fat to be trimmed! just that government people wear blinders and are unable to, and use the crutch "we can't" or "that is the law"

I love the "that is the law" cuz government people just shake their heads like monkeys, when a real leader would CHANGE THE LAW

if Scott drops property taxes, we will be a government god!

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

seeing that one of your sources is a EDU web site, course they hate him. Scott is making them pay for THEIR healthcare and retirement. boo whooo welcome to the real world educators, life is hard suck it up.

I agree that the robo-calls are crazy and if one is on the do not call list, well one shouldn't get robo-calls.

This will be a good campaign (and yes spinning the subject), how do you feel about the "Do Not call list"?

there should be an amendment,

do not call - for all marketing but able to get political phone calls and charities
do not call - that means - no phone calls for "marketing", survey, or political bs

Since when is breaking a contract the real world?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Since when is breaking a contract the real world?

please be more specific as to what you object to and I will answer you

 

[NeverEndingMe]

There was something on the news today about Texas gov Rick Perry's rating plummeting today to the low 40s and support for his budget is like 21%...

only fools believe in polls

polls and statistics can be manipulated to fit ones needs

 

[Ishmael]

I started tracking the articles re. the poll numbers. They all track back to one poll done by some Univ. in Conn.

I think I'll wait until the real pollsters do their job.

Ironically the same Univ. polled in Wis. and Ohio and gave those governors remarkably similar results based on questions heavily biased regarding teachers unions. Go figure.

Ishmael

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I started tracking the articles re. the poll numbers. They all track back to one poll done by some Univ. in Conn.

I think I'll wait until the real pollsters do their job.

Ironically the same Univ. polled in Wis. and Ohio and gave those governors remarkably similar results based on questions heavily biased regarding teachers unions. Go figure.

Ishmael

in the end, a high % of non government workers are upset with government and with government workers. they feel government workers are paid too much, do not contribute enough to their health insurance and pension plans and are not accountable or responsible for their actions.

if obama had his way, there would have been two classes.

government workers and non government workers.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And we got both of those in Rick Scott.

This guy has dropped the ball on just about every issue possible and has completely failed to deliver on his jobs platform.

Not surprisingly he was backed by the Tea Party. Need I say more?

No one in government gets the fact that new business creates 70% of the jobs. Rick Scott never started a new company, he went to work at a bakery and married the owner's daughter. Then he hired his momma. Scott's genius is knowing when to get IN and OUT of a company. He's more like MARIO than John D. Rockefeller.

Rockefeller knew how to create high profit industries that made lotsa people millionaires. Scott's idea of a coup is luring rent-a-cops to Florida.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I started tracking the articles re. the poll numbers. They all track back to one poll done by some Univ. in Conn.

I think I'll wait until the real pollsters do their job.

Ironically the same Univ. polled in Wis. and Ohio and gave those governors remarkably similar results based on questions heavily biased regarding teachers unions. Go figure.

Ishmael

*laugh*
"Some University" in Conn.. As if Quinnipiac is some unknown little podunk community college..

Are you going to dismiss the Public Policy Polling results that were nearly identical? 32% approve - 55% disapprove of his job performance.
How about the results of the Suffolk University poll that was also in the same ballpark? 28% approved - 49% disapproved.

Scott has managed to piss off even his own party legislators by vetoing almost all of their projects.

Hell, even Scott acknowledged his dismal poll numbers in an AP article last April, and they're even worse now.

Denial is a comfortable place for you I suppose.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

omg, he "pissed off" career politician's


what is this world coming to...

*laugh*
"Some University" in Conn.. As if Quinnipiac is some unknown littel podunk community college..

Are you going to dismiss the Public Policy Polling results that were nearly identical? 32% approve - 55% disapprove of his job performance.
How about the results of the Suffolk poll that was also in the same ballpark? 28% approved - 49% disapproved.

Scott has managed to piss off even his own party legislators by vetoing almost all of their projects.

Hell, even Scott acknowledged his dismal poll numbers in an AP article last April, and they're even worse now.

Denial is a comfortable place for you I suppose.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Didn't you guys already do this thread?

Are you saying they've taken a page from "NotRepublican AJ's Big Ole Book of Propaganda" and posted multiple threads on the same topic?

 

[The_Trouvere]

And we got both of those in Rick Scott.

This guy has dropped the ball on just about every issue possible and has completely failed to deliver on his jobs platform.

Not surprisingly he was backed by the Tea Party. Need I say more?

Republicans talk the talk about job creation, but their policies deter job creation.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Are you saying they've taken a page from "NotRepublican AJ's Big Ole Book of Propaganda" and posted multiple threads on the same topic?

And multiple threads that Slug keeps bouncing by repeating the same tired old libertarian cliches that he mistakes for profound wisdom, and the absolute truth.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Republicans talk the talk about job creation, but their policies deter job creation.

what are you talking about? the only jobs obama has created have been in government.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Republicans talk the talk about job creation, but their policies deter job creation.

also, why is this a Rep/Dem issue? this is an AMERICAN issue

wake up

 

[The_Trouvere]

It is not possible to cut government spending. It is unfortunate that Republican politicians have to keep learning that every ten or twenty years. The government grows in response to popular demand and felt need. That is why the government keeps growing. We can either pay for the government by hitting the rich hard with taxes, or by borrowing more money from Communist China.