PPP-CT Congressional Delegation -- Good news

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While Gov. Malloy is in the approval poll sinkhole, the Connecticut Congressional delegation, except for Lieberman, is faring better...

Connecticut's other new statewide elected official is doing quite well though: 52% of voters approve of Richard Blumenthal to just 34% who disapprove. He's on positive ground with independents at 45/38 and has an unusual amount of crossover popularity with 26% of Republicans approving of him. There are 16 new Senators this year and we've polled on 10 of them. Within that group Blumenthal is the second most popular behind only Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

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Joe Lieberman appears to be enjoying something of a retirement bounce his net approval rating has improved by 19 points since PPP last polled Connecticut in March. 39% of voters approve of him to 49% disapproving, up from a 29/58 spread on our last poll. That still makes him the 4th most unpopular Senator we've polled on in 2011- only Ben Nelson, Mitch McConnell, and John McCain do worse- but it's an improvement from being the least popular Senator in the country, which was the designation he held previously.

Most of the improvement in Lieberman's numbers has come with Republicans. 57% of them approve of him to 30% disapproving. He continues to have very poor numbers with Democrats (28/58) and independents (34/53). Even if he's on the up swing it's still hard to imagine he could have been reelected at these levels.

We also polled statewide favorabilities on the entire Congressional delegation. Chris Murphy is the most popular at a +7 spread (35/28) in numbers we released yesterday. The second most popular House member is Rosa DeLauro, who comes in at +4 (38/34). Voters are pretty much evenly divided on the other three: John Larson is +1 (22/21), as is Jim Himes (18/17), with Joe Courtney at -1 (26/27).