Useless Stats?: Approval Ratings for the 50 Governors

We're not sure how useful these stats really are, but given the political proclivity of so many of our readers and the upcoming gubernatorial elections this fall in 36 states, we thought we'd share a link from SurveyUSA.com presenting the current approval ratings for all 50 governors. The survey results, sponsored by many media sources, are presented in "net job approval" order, which is determined by subtracting a governor's disapproval rating from the percentage of respondents who approve of the governor's performance. While the unweighted average net job approval score is 11 percent, governors in 14 states have negative net approval scores. Nine of these same states occupy rankings in the bottom 16 spots on SSTI's five-year change in per capita income table mentioned above. SurveyUSA's table is available at: http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateGovernor060412Net.htm