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We've seen some incredible shifts of opinion in recent weeks as the extremist ring leaders of the Zany Sideshow have shown their cards. Every major newspaper in the state has lambasted these "boorish band" of politicians, to borrow a phrase, religious leaders have implored the leadership to reconsider their devastating cuts, and virtually every coalition in the state is speaking as one against their damaging actions.
Republicans have joined this chorus -in one example calling for an "exorcism" of the capital of these extreme and dangerous people. Now, via Steve Benen and Daily Kos, comes a PPP poll showing Gov. Lynch winning by large margins should he seek a fifth term. Well sure, you say, of course. But take a look at where he's getting the support:
Until last fall, Lynch had unsurprisingly been one of the most popular governors in the country, but in PPP's final poll of the 2010 election, his net job approval-disapproval margin had fallen to a still healthy +12, 51-39. That margin has since doubled to a +25. Now 58% approve, and only a third disapprove, tying him with California's Jerry Brown for the fifth most popular of the 35 currently serving governors on which PPP has polled. His improvement has come not with his own party but with Republicans and independents. Indpendents [sic] have moved from 54-34 to 64-27, and Republicans from 22-66 to 27-59.
By contrast, Lynch's potential challengers are all disliked. State Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley and activist Ovide Lamontagne have identical 29-35 favorable-unfavorable margins, and from there it is downhill. Former Senator John E. Sununu posts a 33-46 spread, and 2010 loser Stephen a 22-36.
That's called hemorrhaging support, ladies and gentlemen, and all orchestrated by O'Brien and the Tough Riders. Unless we see a complete reversal from these loonies, and I doubt that's going to happen, this is going to get louder and uglier.
The poll ends with a statement that makes me want to re-double my efforts:
"It's a sign that 2010 is in the rear view mirror when you see Lynch up 28 points on
Stephen after earning only a single digit win against him in November," said Dean
Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "Things are looking up for Democrats in
New Hampshire."
