On August 31st SurveyUSA released a 600 sample poll of adults taken in Missouri from August 26th through the 27th which shows lower approval numbers (when compared to July) for Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D). The margin of error is 4.1%.
The poll was sponsored by KCTV in Kansas City.
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Jay Nixon is doing as Governor?
All
50% – approve
41% – disapprove
9% – not sureDemocrats [41% of sample]
65% – approve
26% – disapprove
8% – not surerepublicans [30% of sample]
30% – approve
59% – disapprove
11% – not sureIndependents [26% of sample]
47% – approve
49% – disapprove
4% – not sure
There has been a very large drop in approval from republicans, and significant drops in approval among Democrats and “Independents”.
Regionally there is net positive approval for Jay Nixon in Kansas City and St. Louis. There is net disapproval in the northern, southwest, and southeast regions of the state.
The crosstabulations by job status in the August survey:
Job Status
Student [10% of sample]
67% – approve
29% – disapprove
4% – not sureFull-time [42% of sample]
47% – approve
46% – disapprove
7% – not surePart-time [9% of sample]
48% – approve
43% – disapprove
9% – not sureHomemaker [10% of sample]
41% – approve
42% – disapprove
18% – not sureUnemployed [9% of sample]
28% – approve
57% – disapprove
16% – not sureRetired [19% of sample]
64% – approve
27% – disapprove
8% – not sure
There have been significant drops in approval among the full-time employed, homemmakers, and the unemployed. Student approval is similar to July, but the disapproval numbers are up. Approval numbers among the retired remain strong, but that would change if anything were to happen to Medicare.
There have been observations about the declining approval numbers for governors across the country.
It’s the economy, stupid.
…lack of connection between Democrats and the working class reflects itself in all these jobless recoveries we’re seeing. Policy just isn’t made for the mass of people, but of, by and for the rich. And those rich people know that one party serves them much better. If Democrats don’t start creating policies that get regular people jobs, they will be doomed by fundamentals as surely as the Republicans were in 2006 and 2008…