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Poll: Fewer Than One In Three Approve of McGinn

May 7, 2012



According to a new KING5/SurveyUSA poll, just 32 percent of Seattle residents approve of the job Mike McGinn is doing as mayor, with 49 percent of respondents saying they disapprove.

Interestingly, for a mayor who won election largely by rallying the youth vote, McGinn's support was lowest among voters between 18 and 34, only 20 percent of whom said they approved of his performance.

Half of all respondents said they approved of McGinn's handling of the May Day protests, with 35 percent saying they disapproved.

In an unrelated question, 70 percent of respondents said it was harder to park a car in Seattle than it was five years ago; the poll did not ask whether respondents lived here then. Predictably, a large majority (73 percent) said on-street meter rates in Seattle are too high (a whopping 3 percent said they were too low), and 67 percent said higher parking rates have not made it any easier to find on-street parking downtown. Despite this, just 41 percent said higher parking rates have made them more likely to  take the bus downtown. And just 9 percent said they had considered giving up their car.
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