{"id":1629109,"date":"2022-09-01T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629109"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:50:42","slug":"youngkins-approval-favorability-ratings-in-majority-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkins-approval-favorability-ratings-in-majority-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin\u2019s Approval, Favorability Ratings in \u201cMajority\u201d Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoungkins-approval-favorability-ratings-in-majority-territory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Virginians haven\u2019t been very kind to their governors over the past decade, but Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears to be winning them over \u2014 and at quite a pace.<\/p>\n<p>The former businessman who edged aside former Gov. Terry McAuliffe with unexpected ease in last fall\u2019s election has surged to a 55% approval rating in the just-released <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roanoke.edu\/about\/news\/rc_poll_politics_aug_2022\">Roanoke College poll.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/glenn-youngkin\">Youngkin<\/a> has a favorable\/unfavorable rating of 51%-37%, which is also rare positive territory for a commonwealth governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in our poll, a majority (51%) of Virginians have a favorable view of Governor Youngkin, while 37% continue to have an unfavorable view. Again, that increase comes mostly from Republican feelings, but his rating is up slightly among Democrats and independents as well,\u201d read the survey analysis.<\/p>\n<p>While only in office for eight months, a search of past surveys found that former Gov. Ralph Northam only once saw his approval rating over 53% and favorability over 48% during his four-year term. At about this stage of his four-year term in 2014, McAuliffe had a 48% job approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>David Taylor, the director of the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College, told Secrets that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/virginia\">Virginians<\/a> generally have a better feeling about government and public officials.<\/p>\n<p>And, he added, Republicans are feeling better about Youngkin, who is taking slow steps onto the national stage to aid 2022 campaigns and potentially 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince most of the increase in Youngkin\u2019s favorability comes from his own party, his increased prominence (whether it be traveling in the state or national spotlight) among Republicans is very likely tied to that. And, just in general, Virginians are getting to know him and what he&#8217;s doing for our Commonwealth more as time passes. We\u2019re just past his seventh month in office, and it can take time to grow even in one\u2019s own party,\u201d said Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The survey looked into the possibility that Youngkin will run for president in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\">2024,<\/a> potentially against former President Donald Trump. But just 36% of Virginians said Youngkin should run for the nomination, while 54% said he shouldn\u2019t. Among Republicans, 49% said he should run.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginians haven\u2019t been very kind to their governors over the past decade, but Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears to be winning them over \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}