North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is now getting into Roland Burris territory.
Perdue’s approval rating continues to plummet, with the latest survey showing that only 25 percent of voters approve of the job she's doing, according to a new survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning polling firm. Fifty-five percent disapprove, reports Rob Christensen.
The firm has done polling on 48 out of 150 governors and senators and found only one with worse numbers – Burris, the Illinois senator whose appointment by ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich is under investigation.
Perdue’s numbers have been steadily falling since March, when she faced difficult budget decisions to cut programs, furlough state employees, and propose tax increases.
Her biggest drop has been among Democrats. She has fallen from 66 percent approval in March to 38 percent now, with 40 percent of Democrats disapproving the job she's doing.
The poll was taken after Perdue proposed a menu of $1.6 billion in new taxes to help make up North Carolina’s budget deficit.
The survey of 767 North Carolina voters was taken July 10-12 and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
Update: Post has been changed to clarify that PPP has not polled all governors and senators in the country.




Re: Perdue's polling numbers plunge
This poll was conducted over the weekend of July 10 - 12. So it has to be skewed.
Bev's supporters were probably all out of town. The rich folk visit their beach places over the weekends or go to their mountain retreats. So by calling over a July weekend you are only going to get to talk with the poor folk who cannot afford to travel. Poor people are always mad at somebody.
Now if you call back during the week the rich will probably praise Bev to the highest.
You will never get real results talking to poor folk over a July weekend. Talk with the rich folk if you want to know something. And you can't get them on a weekend! I would have thought that a "Democratic-leaning" pollster would have known that. And what were they doing working on a weekend? Doesn't everybody take the week of the 4th off?