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New Elway Poll: McGinn's Ratings More than 2 to 1 Negative
A new Elway Poll shows that for every Seattle voter who thinks Mayor Mike McGinn is doing a good or excellent job, more than two say he is doing only fair or poor. Even worse news for the embattled mayor, only four percent of voters interviewed said McGinn was doing "excellent" while 27 percent ranked his performance as "poor," indicating that those with the strongest opinions about the mayor liked his performance the least:
Of those who ranked McGinn's performance as "poor," 63 percent said they supported building a deep-bore tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. And even of the 22 percent in this poll who supported McGinn's surface/transit/I-5 solution, 54 percent still gave him a negative rating. That suggests that McGinn's general unpopularity is a matter of style, not substance---even those who agree with him on policy positions don't like the job he's doing as mayor.
"It is a bad sign when even most people who agree with McGinn on his core issues said he is doing a “poor” or “only fair” job as mayor," pollster Stuart Elway writes.
Young people, the group most likely to support McGinn, still split among whether he was doing "only fair" to "poor" or "good" to "excellent," with 46 percent saying his performance was good or excellent and 47 percent calling his performance fair to poor.
More potentially troubling news for McGinn: His ranking was lowest among the most likely voters (those who have voted in all of the last four elections), 71 percent of whom gave him only fair to poor rankings. The only group in which McGinn's disapproval rating was below 50 percent were the least likely voters (those who had voted in only one of the past four elections). Forty-nine percent of those voters gave him a ranking of only fair to poor; 39 percent ranked him good to excellent, and 12 percent had no opinion (the largest "undecided" rating of any group of voters).
In contrast, after nine months in his first term, former mayor Greg Nickels had a 40 percent approval rating and a 57 percent "fair" to "poor" rating, with 7 percent undecided.
Read the results of the Elway Poll here.
Of those who ranked McGinn's performance as "poor," 63 percent said they supported building a deep-bore tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. And even of the 22 percent in this poll who supported McGinn's surface/transit/I-5 solution, 54 percent still gave him a negative rating. That suggests that McGinn's general unpopularity is a matter of style, not substance---even those who agree with him on policy positions don't like the job he's doing as mayor.
"It is a bad sign when even most people who agree with McGinn on his core issues said he is doing a “poor” or “only fair” job as mayor," pollster Stuart Elway writes.
Young people, the group most likely to support McGinn, still split among whether he was doing "only fair" to "poor" or "good" to "excellent," with 46 percent saying his performance was good or excellent and 47 percent calling his performance fair to poor.
More potentially troubling news for McGinn: His ranking was lowest among the most likely voters (those who have voted in all of the last four elections), 71 percent of whom gave him only fair to poor rankings. The only group in which McGinn's disapproval rating was below 50 percent were the least likely voters (those who had voted in only one of the past four elections). Forty-nine percent of those voters gave him a ranking of only fair to poor; 39 percent ranked him good to excellent, and 12 percent had no opinion (the largest "undecided" rating of any group of voters).
In contrast, after nine months in his first term, former mayor Greg Nickels had a 40 percent approval rating and a 57 percent "fair" to "poor" rating, with 7 percent undecided.
Read the results of the Elway Poll here.
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