Poll: Michigan Gov. Snyder’s Popularity Tanks After Right-To-Work Bill

[Cigar]

The approval rating of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) is in the gutter, according to a poll released Tuesday, the strongest evidence yet of the political perils associated with the right-to-work legislation he signed into law last week.

According to the latest automated survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, only 38 percent of Michigan voters approve of the job Snyder is doing, compared with 56 percent who disapprove. In PPP's previous survey of Michigan in November, Snyder's approval rating was 10 points above water: 47 percent of voters approved of his performance as governor, while 37 percent disapproved.

The right-to-work bill, signed by Snyder amid mass protests, appears to have changed the political climate in the Great Lake State. Fifty-one percent of Michigan voters oppose the bill, which made Michigan the country's 24th right-to-work state, while 41 percent support the legislation. Moreover, Snyder trails every Democrat in hypothetical matchups of the 2014 gubernatorial election.

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-michigan-gov-snyders-popularity-tanks-after-right?ref=fpb

[patrickt]

I wonder if the union thugs will mount a recall and spend millions to get him out of office as they did in Wisconsin with Gov. Walker?

[Cigar]

I wonder if the union thugs will mount a recall and spend millions to get him out of office as they did in Wisconsin with Gov. Walker?



I'm guessing all the those armed union thugs teachers, firefighters and policemen will.

[hanger4]

Never trust a poll that doesn't give it's demographics and weights.

[Chris]

cigar, you seem to be a populist.

"Populism has been viewed as a political ideology, political philosophy, or as a type of discourse. Generally, populists tend to claim that they side with "the people" against "the elites". While for much of the twentieth century, populism was considered to be a political phenomenon mostly affecting Latin America, since the 1980s populist movements and parties have enjoyed degrees of success in First World democracies such as the USA, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries."

@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

More:


It is believed by some that populist movements can be precursors for, or building blocks for, fascist movements.[18][19][20] Conspiracist scapegoating employed by various populist movements can create "a seedbed for fascism."[21] National socialist populism interacted with and facilitated fascism in interwar Germany.[22] In this case, distressed middle–class populists during the pre-Nazi Weimar period mobilized their anger at government and big business. The Nazis "parasitized the forms and themes of the populists and moved their constituencies far to the right through ideological appeals involving demagoguery, scapegoating, and conspiracism."[23] According to Fritzsche:


The Nazis expressed the populist yearnings of middle–class constituents and at the same time advocated a strong and resolutely anti-Marxist mobilization....Against "unnaturally" divisive parties and querulous organized interest groups, National Socialists cast themselves as representatives of the commonwealth, of an allegedly betrayed and neglected German public....[b]reaking social barriers of status and caste, and celebrating at least rhetorically the populist ideal of the people's community...[24]

[Cigar]

Wrong

[Chris]

Wrong

Well, you seem to think popular opinion and popular vote important. Glad you don't now.

[patrickt]

I'm guessing all the those armed union thugs teachers, firefighters and policemen will.

Good, when they piss away millions there is less to pay union thugs. I realize there is a limit on what you can learn and you seemed to have passed it but we had a violent strike just outside the city where I worked. The union thugs were vandalizing cars and assaulting workers. You know, normal union activities. A police officer was sent to maintain order and he strutted around giving high-fives to his "brothers" on the picket line and was seen carrying a picket sign. He was replaced by a non-union police officer and the union thugs melted like snow under warm piss.

[zelmo1234]

I'm guessing all the those armed union thugs teachers, firefighters and policemen will.
Fire fighter and police are not included in the right to work state legislation.

but they might not have the money to mount it as it is expected that Union memebership will decrease by about 30%

so sad people will be able to keep there own money instead of give it to the Democratic party against there will?

Also each and every Gov has witnessed a drop in popularity, until ti works? Then they rise, but he do what many feel is right, after the Dems tried to force people to join unions on the ballot in Nov.