Anonymous wrote:In his first month, which apparently has never happened previously

https://www.wric.com/news/politics/new-poll-finds-virginia-voters-mixed-on-gov-youngkins-job-approval-proposals/

Overall, 41 percent of Virginia voters approve of Youngkin’s job performance during his first few weeks in office and 43 percent disapprove. Sixteen percent said they did not know how they felt.


“Youngkin’s approval numbers are certainly lower than those of recent governors in Wason Center polling early in their term,” Kidd added.

OP - you appear to have difficulty counting past one (1), as your thread title says “polls” while you based your thread on a single poll.

Why is this guy leaving so soon?

Anonymous wrote:I don't love what Youngkin was doing, but the alternative was emboldening local Democrats to push their agenda even further.

I took the risk on Youngkin on the off-chance he'd be more moderate. Doesn't look like it's happening, but I'm at peace with my choice. Democrats needed to be sent a message.

I'll keep switching sides until one side or the other finally gets the message.

And what message is that?

Anonymous wrote:I don't love what Youngkin was doing, but the alternative was emboldening local Democrats to push their agenda even further.

I took the risk on Youngkin on the off-chance he'd be more moderate. Doesn't look like it's happening, but I'm at peace with my choice. Democrats needed to be sent a message.

I'll keep switching sides until one side or the other finally gets the message.

And what message is that? Is it possible, even just remotely, that your message is wrong? That your fundamental beliefs about racism and ours being a race neutral society, while perhaps we’ll intentioned, are flat out wrong? That masks may actually may be effective? That women actually do have a right to control whether they allow their bodies to be used to reproduce? Help me out here, oh wise independent on DCUM.

I don't love what Youngkin was doing, but the alternative was emboldening local Democrats to push their agenda even further.

I took the risk on Youngkin on the off-chance he'd be more moderate. Doesn't look like it's happening, but I'm at peace with my choice. Democrats needed to be sent a message.

I'll keep switching sides until one side or the other finally gets the message.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing surprising to me in this poll. It suggests:

1) Most bonafide Rs support him
2) Most bonafide Ds oppose him
3) Others, including perhaps some who voted across party lines, are waiting a bit before casting judgment

There is no longer any such thing as "bonafide Rs" - there are now only loud vocal MAGAs who have no vision or principles, only knee-jerk reactionary behavior, versus the more principled old school Republicans, most of whom are too ineffectual, weak and timid to speak out and take their party back from the Trumpsters.

Okay, honey.

This is accurate honey. Loud MAGAS not true Republicans. Most people I know who were Republican will say this is true and are embarrassed by what the party has become.

+1

True Republicans are disgusted by the MAGAs.

Then they can join the true Federalists and Whigs because there no longer is a true Republican Party. The populists finally realized that they were the vast majority of votes and that they no longer have to listen to the George Wills of the world

Yup. RIP, GOP. We now have MAGAlists.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing surprising to me in this poll. It suggests:

1) Most bonafide Rs support him
2) Most bonafide Ds oppose him
3) Others, including perhaps some who voted across party lines, are waiting a bit before casting judgment

There is no longer any such thing as "bonafide Rs" - there are now only loud vocal MAGAs who have no vision or principles, only knee-jerk reactionary behavior, versus the more principled old school Republicans, most of whom are too ineffectual, weak and timid to speak out and take their party back from the Trumpsters.

Okay, honey.

This is accurate honey. Loud MAGAS not true Republicans. Most people I know who were Republican will say this is true and are embarrassed by what the party has become.

+1

True Republicans are disgusted by the MAGAs.

Then they can join the true Federalists and Whigs because there no longer is a true Republican Party. The populists finally realized that they were the vast majority of votes and that they no longer have to listen to the George Wills of the world

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing surprising to me in this poll. It suggests:

1) Most bonafide Rs support him
2) Most bonafide Ds oppose him
3) Others, including perhaps some who voted across party lines, are waiting a bit before casting judgment

There is no longer any such thing as "bonafide Rs" - there are now only loud vocal MAGAs who have no vision or principles, only knee-jerk reactionary behavior, versus the more principled old school Republicans, most of whom are too ineffectual, weak and timid to speak out and take their party back from the Trumpsters.

Okay, honey.

This is accurate honey. Loud MAGAS not true Republicans. Most people I know who were Republican will say this is true and are embarrassed by what the party has become.

+1

True Republicans are disgusted by the MAGAs.

The GOP is unrecognizable and lifelong R's aren't happy with it. R ≠ Maga.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing surprising to me in this poll. It suggests:

1) Most bonafide Rs support him
2) Most bonafide Ds oppose him
3) Others, including perhaps some who voted across party lines, are waiting a bit before casting judgment

There is no longer any such thing as "bonafide Rs" - there are now only loud vocal MAGAs who have no vision or principles, only knee-jerk reactionary behavior, versus the more principled old school Republicans, most of whom are too ineffectual, weak and timid to speak out and take their party back from the Trumpsters.

Okay, honey.

This is accurate honey. Loud MAGAS not true Republicans. Most people I know who were Republican will say this is true and are embarrassed by what the party has become.

+1

True Republicans are disgusted by the MAGAs.

I left the GOP years ago, no longer my responsibility - but the GOP used to do a better job of throwing a blanket over the extremists in their ranks. Now the loud MAGA extremists are the ones dominating the airwaves.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing surprising to me in this poll. It suggests:

1) Most bonafide Rs support him
2) Most bonafide Ds oppose him
3) Others, including perhaps some who voted across party lines, are waiting a bit before casting judgment

There is no longer any such thing as "bonafide Rs" - there are now only loud vocal MAGAs who have no vision or principles, only knee-jerk reactionary behavior, versus the more principled old school Republicans, most of whom are too ineffectual, weak and timid to speak out and take their party back from the Trumpsters.

Okay, honey.

This is accurate honey. Loud MAGAS not true Republicans. Most people I know who were Republican will say this is true and are embarrassed by what the party has become.

+1

True Republicans are disgusted by the MAGAs.

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Anonymous wrote:He’ll be elected president in 2024. Parents are tired of being silenced.

Yeah, that "parent concern" trope is done now, that people saw what he is really about. He won by a very thin margin, and only because he was perceived as a moderate.

Tell that to the just-recalled members of the San Francisco School Board. Fed-up parents are going to be the swing voters in the upcoming election and we're pissed.

It’s amusing you think San Francisco has any bearing here.

In November most candidates who ran against CRT lost. The same will be true this year.

It's amusing that you're so cloistered in your DC bubble that you have no understanding of what the average parent thinks and feels. I didn't explicitly call out CRT, though that issue definitely helps the GOP too. It's more that many Dems have an issue realizing most parents don't want their kids to be masked in school any longer. And that much of the left refuses to even use the phrase "learning loss" to describe the devastating effects that school closures had on children. And that much of the left seems to favor spouting lines about "restorative justice" rather than actually punishing students who engage in violence. And that many Dems now favorite dispensing with merit-based admission for selective schools in the name of "racial equity."

I could go on. I'm a lifelong Dem, but I'm astounded by how out-of-touch many Dems in this area have become.

If you think masks are going to be an issue in November, you're out of your mind. The caveat: We get some new wicked strain and cases start spiking again. That could put masks back on the table.

The reality is most people don't feel as strongly about masks and mask mandates as you do. Yours is a fringe opinion. I get that you're completely selfish and don't care about others, but that's *YOUR* character defect -- stop projecting it onto other people. That's some serious fabulism right there.

Youngkin didn't win because of masks. The only school policy that might have put him over the top was frighening suburban white mommies about CRT and convincing Asian-American families their kids were going to lose an edge by deemphasizing advanced math and STEM programs.

To get a really good idea of what you voted for, check out John Oliver's explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U

Anonymous wrote:It is so telling that Youngkin supporters are completely ignoring the polling data in favor of their fervent hopes.

Trump supporters are still doing this....it's sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing surprising to me in this poll. It suggests:

1) Most bonafide Rs support him
2) Most bonafide Ds oppose him
3) Others, including perhaps some who voted across party lines, are waiting a bit before casting judgment

There is no longer any such thing as "bonafide Rs" - there are now only loud vocal MAGAs who have no vision or principles, only knee-jerk reactionary behavior, versus the more principled old school Republicans, most of whom are too ineffectual, weak and timid to speak out and take their party back from the Trumpsters.

Okay, honey.

This is accurate honey. Loud MAGAS not true Republicans. Most people I know who were Republican will say this is true and are embarrassed by what the party has become.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems will increase their senate majority and, after that, easily win back the state house. Virginia is a blue state. This weird, one-off election of this individual doesn’t change that. Some suburban white voters had a temper tantrum about The Schools.

You sound more than a little out of touch. Not sure what constituency you think is going to come to the rescue of the Democrats unless they clean up their act quickly. And I see no signs of that in big jurisdictions like Fairfax, where the only response of the local Democrats is to bash Youngkin 24/7. They may push up his unfavorable ratings, but folks like the incompetent and hypocritical Democrats on the school board are despised even more.

DP. Go back to the original article posted by OP. It shows that Youngkin is struggling because his priorities since taking office aren’t in line with the majority of Virginia voters. You may like him just fine, but you are not all of Virginia.

Anonymous wrote:Why should a one-term governor care about poll numbers?

2023 general assembly elections will be in part a referendum on Youngkin. If he is underwater, the Democrats are far more likely to shore up their numbers in both chambers, which will make it all but impossible for Youngkin to advance his agenda.

Also, you don’t run for Virginia governor if you have no further political ambitions. Youngkin has his eye on the presidency, but probably recognizes he’ll need to try to grab a senate seat first to avoid a period of irrelevancy when his term ends a year after the 2024 election. He won’t oust Kaine or Warner if he is underwater given that both last won re-election by significant margins. And he is unlikely to win a presidential nomination if he can’t be reasonably assured of carrying Virginia.