Morning Consult, a new outfit this cylce that has been performing national polling of the both presidential primaries, has turned its eyes to polling on all the nation’s Governors. Morning Consult’s surveys were conducted between May and November and asked 76,569 registered voters in all 50 states whether they approve or disapprove of their governor’s job performance. The sample sizes vary by state, from 6,696 registered California voters to 198 voters registered in Wyoming; margins of error vary by sample size. The median sample size was 1,172 respondents. Delaware’s sample size was 568 with a 4% margin of error.
All that said, Governor Jack Markell has a 61% approval rating. 25% disapprove. He is the third most popular Democratic Governor, after Minnesota’s Mark Dayton and West Virginia’s Earl Ray Tomblin, and the 12th most popular in the country.
We don’t know when the poll was taken between May and November, so grain of salt time, not that much has occurred to make the Governor go up or down during that time.