Rick Scott gets solid marks in a new poll after another survey released this week found him upside down.
Morning Consult released its Governor Approval Rankings and it showed the Florida governor moving up in the polls with 49 percent of Florida voters approving of him and 41 percent disapproving of him. Back in November, a Morning Consult poll had Scott upside down with 47 percent of those surveyed disapproving of him while 44 percent approved of him.
This places Scott in the middle of the gubernatorial pack when it comes to approval. Morning Consult found Republican Charlie Barker of Massachusetts as the most popular of any governor followed by Republicans Larry Hogan of Maryland Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota, Brian Sandoval of Nevada and independent Bill Walker of Alaska. Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas is the most unpopular governor followed by Democrat Dan Malloy of Connecticut and then Republicans Rick Snyder of Michigan, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Paul LePage of Maine.
“More than 66,000 registered voters across America have evaluated the job performance of key elected officials on Morning Consult’s weekly online national polling from early January 2016 through May 5, 2016,” Morning Consult noted in its methodology. “Morning Consult obtained population parameters for registered voters from the November 2012 Current Population Survey (CPS) and applied post-stratification weights based on gender, age, educational attainment and race. Thus far, the median state includes a total of 883 respondents, the state with the most respondents is California (n = 5,968) and the state with the least respondents is Wyoming (n = 165).” The sample of Florida voters had a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percent.
A poll from Quinnipiac University released earlier this week had Scott underwater with 49 percent of Florida voters disapproving of him and 40 percent approving of him.
While he has endorsed Donald Trump, Scott has said he has no interest in being his running mate. Scott is generating buzz as a potential Senate candidate in 2018 when Democrat Bill Nelson’s third term is up. Nelson has said he plans to run for a fourth term.
