Raleigh,
N.C.- PPP’s newest Minnesota poll finds Governor Mark Dayton with a 49% approval
rating to 47% disapproval and 4% not sure. Potential Republican challenger Kurt
Daudt has a 6% approval rating to 15% disapproval. Tom Emmer elicits positive
ratings from 20% of voters and negative ones from 37%. David Hann has a 4%
favorable rating and 16% unfavorable rating. Scott Honour has a 3% favorability
rating to 11% unfavorable. Jeff Johnson has a positive rating of 6% and
negative rating of 13%. Julie Rosen has ratings of 9% favorable and 13%
unfavorable. Dave Thompson’s favorability rating is 8% and a 13% unfavorable
rating. 10% like Kurt Zellers, and 25% have a negative opinion of him.
Governor
Dayton would beat Kurt Daudt 51% to 39%. Dayton leads Tom Emmer 52% to 39%. He has a
51% to 36% advantage over David Hann. Dayton leads Scott Honour 52%-34%. He
also has Jeff Johnson by 52%-34%. Voters favor Dayton over Julie Rosen 51%-34%.
Dayton leads Dave Thompson 51%-35%. He leads Kurt Zellers 53%-35%.
Raleigh, N.C.-PPP’s monthly
North Carolina Senate poll finds Kay Hagan leading or tying all potential
challengers. For the first time, Cherie Berry ties Hagan at 45%. Hagan leads
Phil Berger 46%-42%. The Senator comes in ahead of Greg Brannon 49%-40% and Jim
Cain 48%-41%. Hagan bests Virginia Foxx 49%-42%. She leads Mark Harris 46%-40%.
Hagan beats out Lynn Wheeler by a 48%-37% margin. The very-likely candidates
Thom Tillis and Renee Ellmers each trail Hagan, at 48%-41% and 48%-39%,
respectively.
Virginia
Foxx holds a slight lead in the contest for the Republican nomination. 15% of
Republican primary voters support her, to Cherie Berry’s 14%. Renee Ellmers
also makes it into double digits, at 10%. The Ron Paul-style libertarian Brannon
garners the support of 7% of Republicans. Jim Cain gets 4% of the vote, and
Lynn Wheeler wins 3%. Thom Tillis’s self-promotion continues not to yield
results. With 6% of the vote, the state House Speaker finishes third-worst.
Raleigh,
N.C. – PPP’s new
survey of Minnesota voters finds Al Franken comfortably leading all potential
challengers. Franken leads Michele Bachmann 55% to 38%. He leads Jason Lewis by
54% to 37%. Franken bests Republican Mike McFadden 51%-36%. He leads Julianne
Ortman 52%-35%. Julie Rosen trails Franken 36%-52%. Rounding out the bunch,
Rich Stanek faces a 36%-51% deficit against the Senator.
Franken
himself is popular, with a 51% approval rating to 42% disapproval. Bachmann is
deeply unpopular, at 34% favorable, 60% unfavorable and 7% not sure. Lewis has
an 18% positive rating and 19% negative rating; 63% were undecided. McFadden
garners positive views from 4%, negative ones from 10% and none from 85%.
Julianne Ortman also has a 4% favorability rating, but her positive number
comes with a 15% negative rating. Rosen
garners a 9%-13% spread with 79% expressing no opinion. Rich Stanek stands at
11% positive and 14% negative. 75% have no opinion of him.
Raleigh,
N.C.- PPP’s
latest North Carolina poll reveals that the Republican government is receiving
poor marks. Although Pat McCrory’s approval rating is 48% positive to 38%
negative, 48% of North Carolinians disapprove of the Republican government to
just 41% who approve. Republican legislators score even worse at 37% approval
to 49% disapproval. The General Assembly overall gets a 25% positive rating to
51% negative and 24% unsure. At 38%-46%, Democrats have poor numbers, too. Voters
believe by a 45% to 31% margin that the General Assembly is causing the state
national embarrassment.
Specific
Republican proposals are extremely unpopular. Voters oppose the House and
Senate tax plans by 41%-11% and 44%-14%, respectively. When told the details of
these plans, opposition soars to 68%-13% for the Senate’s plan and 55%-21% for
the House’s. 81% of North Carolinians oppose raising the sales tax on groceries
from 2% to 6.5%. Only 10% support it.
Raleigh, N.C. –
PPP's monthly look at the 2016 Republican field for President finds essentially
a 4 way tie at the top- Marco Rubio has 16%, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie 15%
each, and Rand Paul 14%. Paul Ryan at 9%, Ted Cruz at 7%, Rick Santorum at 5%,
Bobby Jindal at 3%, and Susana Martinez at 1% round out the potential
candidates we tested.
It's now been almost 6 months since we started doing regular polling of the
2016 race. The only candidate who's shown any real momentum over that period of
time is Paul, whose support has doubled from 7% to 14%. Rubio's shift from 18%
to 16%, Bush's from 12% to 15%, and Christie's from 14 to 15% are all within the
margin of error. It is worth noting though that this is the first time Rubio
hasn't held at least a 4 point lead over the other Republican contenders.
Raleigh,
N.C. – PPP’s latest
national survey finds President Barack Obama enjoying a strong advantage over
Congressional Republicans. 48% of voters approve of the job he’s doing to 49%
who disapprove with 3% who are not sure. Just 25% approve of Congressional
Republicans. 68% disapprove of them, and 7% are not sure. 38% like Congressional
Democrats; 56% don’t, and 12% aren’t sure.
73% of
Americans still support universal background checks to 21% who oppose. Just 26%
are more likely to support a politician who opposed background checks, and 42%
would be less likely to support the candidate. 40% would be less likely to vote
for a candidate supported by the NRA to 29% who say an NRA endorsement would
strengthen their support.
Raleigh,
N.C. – Just 16% of
Americans have a favorable opinion of hipsters, a new PPP poll on the
much-discussed subculture shows. 42% have an unfavorable opinion of hipsters,
and 43% aren’t sure. Democrats (18% favorable, 34% unfav) are twice as likely
as Republicans (9% fav, 48% unfav) to have a favorable opinion. Voters age
18-29 have a favorable opinion of them (43% fav-29% unfav), but very few voters
over age 65 do (6% fav -37% unfav).
Just 10%
of voters say they consider themselves to be hipsters – and almost all of those
are younger voters. Half of all voters aged 18-29 consider themselves hipsters;
every other age group is 5% or less.
14% of
voters say they’d be more likely to vote for a hipster for political office –
mostly independent voters. 12% of Democrats and 27% of independent voters say
they’d be more likely to vote for a hipster, but just 2% of Republicans agreed.
98% of Republicans say they’d be less likely to vote for a hipster.
Raleigh, N.C. –
PPP's newest national poll finds that Republicans aren't getting much traction
with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton
over Congressional Republicans on the issue of Benghazi by a 49/39 margin and
Clinton's +8 net favorability rating at 52/44 is identical to what it was on
our last national poll in late March. Meanwhile Congressional Republicans
remain very unpopular with a 36/57 favorability rating.
Voters think Congress should be more focused on other major issues right now
rather than Benghazi. By a 56/38 margin they say passing a comprehensive
immigration reform bill is more important than continuing to focus on Benghazi,
and by a 52/43 spread they think passing a bill requiring background checks for
all gun sales should be a higher priority.
Raleigh,
N.C. – Day two of
PPP’s music-centric poll finds a partisan divide in the favorability ratings of
many of the biggest music stars of the past several decades. Voters
overall have extremely favorable reviews
of Elvis Presley (73-14), The Beatles (76-15), The Rolling Stones (61-26) and
the Beach Boys (74-16). They’re split on
Michael Jackson who holds a 48-44 favorability rating. Kurt Cobain is viewed
favorably by just 25% while 44% say they have an unfavorable opinion of the
late grunge icon. And a majority of voters view Madonna unfavorably (36-51).
When asked who is their favorite Beatle, 41% of voters choose Paul McCartney,
29% say John Lennon, 12% pick Ringo Starr and 11% go for George Harrison.
There’s
a partisan divide for many of these ratings, however. There’s a massive
54-point party divide on Michael Jackson – Democrats have a favorable view of
him at 59-30, Republicans are flipped and view him unfavorably by a 34-59
margin. The same with Madonna – Democrats narrowly view her favorably (43-41)
while Republicans strongly dislike her (21-68). The party disagreements even
extend to Favorite Beatle – Democrats choose John over Paul (39-36) while
Republicans strongly prefer Paul over John (49-15) – it seems Republicans still
haven’t forgiven Lennon for his strong political activism. Overall, Democrats
(84-10) like The Beatles more than Republicans (66-24).
Raleigh,
N.C. – A new
music-oriented poll from Public Policy Polling finds widespread support for
several genres and music and artists – but Americans are united in their dislike
for teen pop sensation Justin Bieber. PPP tested the favorability ratings of
several of today’s biggest music stars: Taylor Swift (53-27), Adele (54-18),
Beyonce (51-30), and Justin Timberlake (52-24) all received positive reviews
from voters. Others didn’t fare as well – Chris Brown (13-57), Lady Gaga
(29-50), Justin Bieber (20-54) were all rated unfavorably by 50% or more, and
Jay-Z (25-44) and Rihanna (30-39) had net-negative favorability ratings as
well. Veteran British rocker Morrissey (17-31 with 52% not sure) and dubstep
pioneer Skrillex (11-35 with 54% not sure) were the least known of artists
tested.
Bieber
was the only artist whose unfavorability rating stretched across partisan lines
– a majority of Democrats (23-54), Republicans (17-52), and independents
(18-56) all reported negative views of the singer.
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