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Americans Increasingly Dislike How Republican Governors Are Handling The Coronavirus Outbreak

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, governors have generally received better marks for the way they’ve handled the crisis than President Trump has. However, new polling suggests that may be changing, especially for Republican governors in states where the number of coronavirus cases has spiked in recent weeks.

Gallup recently found that Americans in the 26 states governed by Republicans are souring on their leaders’ approach to the public health crisis, while sentiment remains steadily positive among residents of the 24 states governed by Democrats. In fact, over the past month, the share of respondents who agreed that their governor cared about the safety and health of their community fell by 8 points, from 61 percent to 53 percent, in states where a Republican is governor; opinion in Democratic-run states hovered around 65 percent, despite some movement week to week.



And on the question of how clearly governors were communicating their plans to address the coronavirus, the GOP also got low marks. Among respondents in Republican-run states, just 43 percent said their governor offered a clear plan, down from 54 percent about a month ago. Meanwhile, 58 percent of respondents in Democratic-run states said that their governor was communicating clearly, which was nearly identical to the share who said so in early June.

Gallup isn’t the only pollster to find GOP leaders getting lower scores for the way they’re dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Change Research’s polling of six battleground states found especially poor numbers for Republican governors in two states where the number of coronavirus cases surged in the first half of July: Florida and Arizona. In Change’s polling, 57 percent disapproved of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s handling of the outbreak, and a whopping 71 percent disapproved of Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s response. Additional polling in Arizona and Florida second these findings. OH Predictive Insights found that opinion of Ducey’s approach went from a net positive in June (59 percent approved, 37 percent disapproved) to a net negative in July (35 percent approved, 63 percent disapproved). Likewise, surveys by CBS News/YouGov found 53 percent of Floridians said DeSantis was doing a somewhat or very bad job and 62 percent of Arizonans said the same of Ducey.

Not every Republican governor’s pandemic-response ratings are underwater, however. Some, in fact, have sterling numbers. In late June, a survey from the University of New Hampshire found Gov. Chris Sununu had a 78 percent approval rating for his handling of the virus. Considering Sununu is up for reelection this November, his response could help him win another two years in office. Meanwhile, in Ohio, 77 percent of respondents in a late-June Quinnipiac University poll approved of Gov. Mike DeWine’s performance. And in Massachusetts, another late-June survey from Suffolk University found 81 percent approved of Gov. Charlie Baker’s handling of the outbreak.

What these three governors have in common is the coronavirus hasn’t been surging in their states recently as much as it has in Arizona or Florida, but that doesn’t explain everything. Texas’s case rate has also shot up since late June, but Gov. Greg Abbott has gotten better marks than either DeSantis or Ducey. A CBS News/YouGov survey, for instance, found that public opinion was split as to how well he was handling the crisis: 50 percent said he was doing a good job and 50 percent said he was doing a bad job. And in another early-July survey from The Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler, 49 percent approved of Abbott’s response while 40 percent disapproved (10 percent said they neither approved nor disapproved).

Some Democratic governors have middling approval ratings, too. Change Research’s early-July survey found, for instance, that 56 percent approved of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’s handling of the pandemic, while 55 percent approved of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s responses. And just 51 percent approved of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s efforts. Wolf got some better numbers from a Monmouth University poll released earlier this week, in which 67 percent said he’d done a good job handling the coronavirus, but Cooper seems to be stuck around 50 percent. A late-June survey from East Carolina University found 53 percent approved of his response.

But on the whole, Americans have a somewhat more favorable view of the way Democratic governors have handled the pandemic than the way Republican governors are responding. In late June, a consortium of universities conducted a poll of governors’ handling of the coronavirus across all 50 states and found that the median approval rating for Democratic governors was about 55 percent, compared to 49 percent for Republican governors. And some Democratic executives have sky-high numbers for how they’ve handled the pandemic. A late-June poll from Siena College gave New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a 76 percent approval rating for his handling of the coronavirus, while a Garin Hart Yang Research Group survey found that 69 percent of Kentucky voters approved of Gov. Andy Beshear’s response.

Of course, as president, Trump’s response to the coronavirus has continued to garner the most attention, but unfortunately for him, public opinion of his efforts has only worsened. About 58 percent now disapprove of his handling of the pandemic while just 38 percent approve, according to FiveThirtyEight’s coronavirus polling tracker.

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Yes Stacey, the rude comment was needed.

 

Fun stuff..

https://www.bitchute.com/video/vakTiv2hEAFb/

 

I'm not visiting your Utah dog breeding website. For the last time.

 

Silly dog. It's obviously Obama and Bidens fault. They didn't warn trump about the impending pandemic 3.5 years out of office.

 

Well, then, don't. Ruff.

 

FAKE NEWS!

 

Easy for you to say, yes.

Tell me, what isn't fake news these days. People are gonna believe what they wanna believe. Simple as that.

 

Yes because it's so believable!

 

the data about limited immunity has been increasing as we get further into this pandemic. This article joins a long line of articles questioning if long term immunity to Covid is even possible

this article certainly doesn't generate any optimism. At the same time, I wonder if it really generates that much pessimism

now, it's entirely possible I'm talking out of my colon on this, but that article seems to place a potential Covid vaccine in the same category as flu shots. Antibodies from having the flu don't last long either; a matter of weeks IIRC. People can get the flu 2 or even 3 times in a bad flu season if they don't get the vaccine. The antibodies from a flu vaccine significantly increase the anti-body resistance time over that of a flu infection. But even then, a flu vaccine is only effective for a few months. My PC has told me it's best to wait till mid-November, or a little later, to get a flu shot otherwise I could be vulnerable in March. That's only about 4-5 months, at best. (he also told me that it takes around 2 weeks after the shot for the anti-bodies to be at the level where I have immunity...no immediate immunity)

anyway, that seems to dovetail with the last report about the vaccine the NIH had that was going into the 30,000 person clinical trial. That was a shot with a booster after 6 months. It might be that we could be getting a covid vaccine twice a year. Even one every 4 months would be better than getting Covid, over and over

 

Texas is doing a test run on erasing Covid cases, and reducing the positives, that you just know the white house is eager to copy:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-erases-covid-cases-and-fans-conspiracy-theory-flames?ref=home

the right-wing universe is already using this to say Covid is fake news. Just wait until the trump zealots at HHS get a chance to massage the numbers.

of course, what they really want is to somehow claim the mortality numbers are fake too. Funny thing is if they start removing antigen positives from the official count of positives, the mortality rate will increase

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...lth/texas-infants-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

85 infants under age 1 tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county