National Poll Finds That David Ige Is One Of The Least Popular Governors
Hawaii’s chief executive聽had an approval rating below 50 percent in the survey, unlike聽most other governors.
A new state-by-state聽poll ranks Hawaii鈥檚 governor among the least popular chief executives in the country.
Gov. David Ige, according to , has an approval rating of just 48 percent in the islands.
Ige鈥檚 disapproval rating is 42 percent while 9 percent either don鈥檛 know who the governor is or do not have an opinion about him.
The governor wasn鈥檛 available for comment Tuesday.
Ige鈥檚 48 percent approval rating puts him near the back of the pack when it comes to popularity. He is tied with two other governors, Democrat Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Republican Doug Ducey of Arizona.
Still, Ige fared better in the Morning Consult poll than he did in a Civil Beat Poll in May that found more respondents had a negative opinion of him (38 percent) than positive (35 percent).
The Morning Consult poll found that聽34 governors have approval ratings above 50 percent. (Iowa鈥檚 just-appointed governor was not included in the survey.)
The two governors with the lowest approval ratings are Republicans: Chris Christie of New Jersey and Sam Brownback of Kansas. Just 25 percent of those surveyed say they like the work Christie and Brownback are doing.
Christie made headlines when he, his family and friends were seen vacationing on a New Jersey聽beach when state beaches were closed to the public due to a government shutdown.
Brownback, meanwhile, saw the GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature . Instead of stimulating the Kansas economy, as Brownback promised, the tax cuts resulted in giant budget deficits that necessitated painful cuts to programs such as education.
Who Scored聽Highest
The Morning Consult poll is based on interviews with more than聽195,000 registered voters nationwide from April 1 through July 10.
Two Republican governors lead the country in popularity: Charlie Baker of Massachusetts and Larry Hogan of Maryland.
According to Morning Consult:
鈥淏aker and Hogan, two canny dealmakers who have largely eschewed the national political scene and have been unsupportive of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans鈥 efforts to repeal and replace significant parts of Obamacare, continue to enjoy the support of a large share of voters in traditionally Democratic states ahead of their 2018 re-election bids. Seventy-one percent of Massachusetts voters said they approve of Baker while 68 percent of Marylanders back Hogan.鈥
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Two other Hawaii leaders 鈥 U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, both Democrats 鈥 fared very well in a Morning Consult poll . They were the second- and third-most popular U.S. senators, just behind Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont.
In the latest Civil Beat poll, about 55 percent of respondents also gave Schatz a positive rating, compared with 53 percent for Hirono.
