Peter Schorsch
Republicans are getting a good report card from Florida voters according to a new poll conducted by Associated Industries of Florida and obtained by FloridaPolitics.com.
AIF found that 71 percent of likely Republican voters think the state is headed in the right direction, and an astounding 81 percent approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing through his first month in the White House.
The Trump numbers are a far cry from the most recent Gallup national poll on his popularity, which showed him with a 40 percent approval rating on Feb. 17.
Naysayers measured in at 20 percent for the direction of the state and 14 percent for Trump’s job approval, leading to a net 51 percent approval and 67 percent approval, respectively.
Survey participants also had no qualms with Gov. Rick Scott, who garnered 81 percent support compared to 14 percent who said he his performance wasn’t up to snuff.
While Scott and Trump are enjoying glowing reviews from likely Republican voters, second-term U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t faring as well.
Though 69 percent of those polled said they thought he was doing a good job, the bulk of those supporters stated that they only “somewhat approved” of the Miami Republican, leaving him with a softer approval rating than Scott or Trump.
AIF surveyed 800 likely Republican voters who had voted in at least one of the last three Republican primaries, but not the presidential preference in 2016. The group said 81 percent of those polled were over 50 years old and 90 percent were white.
One comment
Matt
February 22, 2017 at 9:46 am
Peter,
There is an issue with your lede. It is setting up a false equivalence between Florida Republican voters, and all Florida voters. The poll, which you say in the following sentence, is only conducted on Republican voters, which only accounts for roughly 35% of all voters in the state. The way the article is currently written gives the impression a vast majority of those in Florida, support what is going on, and you can’t draw that conclusion from this study.
You also compare it to the national Gallup poll, which polls all adults, not just those who identify as Republicans, or even likely voters. Drawing the comparison to the 40% approval rating is slightly disingenuous. It would be more prudent to compare to the breakout of self-identified Republicans in the Gallup poll, which unfortunately, I don’t have access to, but I’m fairly confident will show similar to what these are showing.
I think the real story should be in the form of, there is a large disconnect between the different political parties, and how they perceive the state and country around them.
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