Survey USA polls approval ratings for all U.S. Senators

[iwantmycountryback]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/06/14/approval_ratings_released_for_all_us_senators.html

Senator with the highest approval rating? Barack Obama 72%
Senator with the lowest approval rating? John Cornyn 40%

See your senator's ratings here.
http://surveyusa.com/50StateTracking.html

For those unfortunate enough to have James Inhofe and Tom Coburn as your senators, their approval ratings are a mere 44% and 43% respectively.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Egads feinstein still tracks well

[iwantmycountryback]

2. Somehow Boxer has pretty much the same rating

Only 51%, which I find odd considering she got 58% of the vote. And Lautenberg of NJ is only 42%, but I don't put much stock into that, not that he's running again anyways. Also, Senator Fecal Matter (Santorum for those of you who don't know) is only at 45%. I can't fuckin wait to see Casey Jr. kick his sorry ass.

[wtbymark]

3. Vermont

Leahy : 71%
Jeffords : 67%

I'm willing to bet Bernie will rank as highly as Pat

[aintitfunny]

4. Frist is tanking and so it Santorum

Yeah! 13 of the top 20 are dems and 1 independent.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Good on Frist!

Yay! I also found this interesting: <It's particularly interesting to note that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is actually more popular among Democrats than among members of his own party.>

No president McCain I guess.

[FloridaPat]

5. With most people disapproving of Me Martinez, how did he get elected?

Oh yeah, the computerized voting machines that stole Florida again for *.

[Jensen]

8. You bet.!!!

I just hope Sen Nelson keeps his seat and dosent give way to that witch Katherine Harris!

[FloridaPat]

16. I know. I can't believe anyone outside of her area would vote for her.

She is apparently so incompetent it's amazing she even got elected at all. I may have to reconsider living in Florida if she gets in. Or one more hurricane - which ever comes first.

[Radical Activist]

6. Moderate Republicans and liberal Democrats seem to be doing well.

It's nice to see Byrd at 63%. I think the moderate establishment Democrats who think that being wishy-washy is more electable are full of crap, and this reconfirms that impression.

[EC]

7. Russ at 62%

and Kohl at 59% - WI Dems doing well

[quaoar]

9. The governors' approval ratings are even more interesting

http://surveyusa.com/50governorsrated051005.htm

The lowest is Bob Taft in Ohio at a pathetic 19 percent.

There are 23 governors below 50 percent approval, 14 of them are Republicans:

[FreedomAngel82]

12. That is pathetic for Taft

Bredesen of Tn isn't doing great but not doing bad either.

52% Approve
40% Disapprove
9% Not Sure

[Ian David]

21. Governors

4 out of the Top 10 Governors are Democrats
4 out of the Bottom 10 Governors are Democrats

13 Democrats have an approval rating at or above 50%
14 Republicans have an approval rating below 50%

[ComerPerro]

11. People are just glad they don't have Keyes

LOL

[ComerPerro]

13. Brownback is a pathetic loser

even in ultra-conservative, fundie Kansas, he only has about 52%

[mountaindem]

14. both of my senators

are squarely in the top 25
Byrd is at 21
and Rockefeller is at 8.

Can't say the same though about our party chairman in WV, smooching with the republican chamber of commerce to push through tort reform.
That's all our pseudo-democrat governor Joe Manchin has done since taking office...hurt working families in WV.

[ComerPerro]

17. I was suprised to find that Durbin wasn't much above 50

[Ian David]

15. Here's a complete table of scores. Anyone have a spreadsheet?

http://surveyusa.com/100USSenatorApprovalRatings061305.htm

I would love to see the average and mean approval scores of Democrats vs Republicans.

Especially in the swing states.

In other words, which party has the higher average approval ratings?

Interesting observations:

8 out of the top 10 are Democrats.

3 out of the lowest 10 are Democrats.

And that's despite the fact that the majority of the people on the list are Republicans.

The Top 10

1 IL Obama, Barack D 72%
2 ME Collins, Susan R 71%
3 ND Conrad, Kent D 71%
4 VT Leahy, Patrick D 71%
5 ME Snowe, Olympia R 71%
6 ND Dorgan, Byron D 70%
7 HI Inouye, Daniel D 70%
8 WV Rockefeller, Jay D 70%
9 RI Reed, Jack D 69%
10 IN Bayh, Evan D 67%



The Bottom 10

90 FL Nelson, Bill D 47%
91 NH Sununu, John R 47%
92 MN Dayton, Mark D 46%
93 PA Santorum, Rick R 45%
94 OH DeWine, Mike R 44%
95 OK Inhofe, James R 44%
96 OK Coburn, Tom R 43%
97 FL Martinez, Mel R 43%
98 NC Burr, Richard R 42%
99 NJ Lautenberg, Frank D 39%
100 TX Cornyn, John R 40%

13 out of the Top 25 are Democrat
24 out of the Top 50 are Democrat

Again, this despite the Rethugnican Super-Majority.

[Darkhawk32]

18. My state (MO): Bond #66, (No) Talent #88 .... Talent up in 2006.

They're trying to recruit Claire McCaskill to run. McCaskill, State Auditor, lost in a close race to then-Secretary of State, "Baby Bush" Matt Blunt.

Oh, btw, Blunt was also the Co-Chairman of the Reelect Bush Campaign.

Figures, eh?

[deadparrot]

19. Awesome thing about McCain on that first link...

It's particularly interesting to note that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is actually more popular among Democrats than among members of his own party.

Bad news for primary season. :)

[Mass]

20. Lieberman at 65 %??

I am seriously doubting that these number mean something.