Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Gov. Beverly Perdue’s decline in the polls appears to be bottoming out.

In fact, Perdue has had a slight up tick in her polling numbers, according to the latest survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm in Raleigh.

The firm found that 27 percent of North Carolina voters approve of the job she is doing, while 52 percent disapprove.

Those are still poor numbers, but better than last month when she had a 25 percent job approval rating.

Like most governors, Perdue’s popularity has badly sagged during the deep recession as she has proposed major cuts in government spending, furloughs for state employees, and tax increases, reports Rob Christensen.

But Perdue has improved her standing among Democrats in recent weeks after rejecting a budget proposal because of deep cuts in education and a proposal to tack an income tax surcharge on all taxpayers.

Her positive/negatives among Democrats rose from 38/40 in July to 42/36 in August, according to the survey.

The poll of 749 North Carolina voters was conducted August 4-10 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by AgentPierce on August 12, 2009 - 10:00pm.

She musta been passing out oatmeal cookies at the homeless shelter again .... wearing that little French maid outfit.

That Dumpling is a feisty little minx.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by watching on August 12, 2009 - 7:13pm.

What the hay, the bottom is the bottom. Where else can she go?

Nothing has changed. She is still unpopular with lots of people.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by Platowasright on August 12, 2009 - 4:25pm.

The "change" in her poll numbers are well within the margin of error, and are statistically meaningless.

Nice try to build up Gov. Dimples.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by Platowasright on August 12, 2009 - 4:01pm.

The operative phrase in this blog is "BOTTOMING OUT".
What a pitiful excuse for a governor.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by chance1627 on August 12, 2009 - 2:56pm.

Polling .008% of the state's population would hardly be considered a "representative sample" of anything and random variations alone could drastically change the outcomes. This applies to national polling - most poll 1k-2k people which is approx .004% (and this includes both sides).

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by chance1627 on August 12, 2009 - 2:51pm.

Ah, the absurdity of politics. Calling polling a science in any form is like calling economics a science. It's all statistics, politics, and pontifications of which we should consider a tendancy rather than a precise measure of anything tangible.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by GiggleBox on August 12, 2009 - 1:58pm.

I wonder what fun info we'll find out tomorrow?

Stay tuned. Burr's Campaign Manager is just getting started trying to counter scientific polling.

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by chance1627 on August 12, 2009 - 1:52pm.

Don't the numbers of people polled, the polling agency and the time period look an awful lot like yesterday's tidbit on the birther's?

I wonder what fun info we'll find out tomorrow?

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by GiggleBox on August 12, 2009 - 1:43pm.

NotLiberal makes several excellent points on scientific trend polling.

If they dropped much lower they would be in the single digits.

That's true. If they dropped about 18 points or two-thirds, they would be in single digits.

The problem with polls is...

Do go on.

that there is always a certain percentage of people who have no idea what you are polling about and just give an affirmative answer.

So sometimes, when random polling public opinion the pollsters don't always screen out regular people from the public opinion poll? Good point.

There is also a certain percentage of people who just don't want to say anything negative about a person.

Another excellent point about the public and their stated opinions. You know what they really mean, right?

And then finally, there is a certain percentage of people who live in the city who are more critical of how elected officials do versus people who live in the country and depend very little on government services.

WHOOPS!

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Re: Perdue's poll numbers take slight upturn

Submitted by NotLiberal on August 12, 2009 - 1:13pm.

Upturn huh,

If they dropped much lower they would be in the single digits.

The problem with polls is that there is always a certain percentage of people who have no idea what you are polling about and just give an affirmative answer. There is also a certain percentage of people who just don't want to say anything negative about a person. And then finally, there is a certain percentage of people who live in the city who are more critical of how elected officials do versus people who live in the country and depend very little on government services.

Do any of those polled fall into one of these categories? I have no idea. But when you look at the numbers you have to take these views into consideration.

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