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Voters in Virginia have soured on Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) in the immediate aftermath of the blackface scandal that has many leaders, including top Democrats, calling for him to resign.
Morning Consult tracking found a 41-percentage-point drop in Northams net approval rating the share of voters who approve of his job performance minus the share of those who dont in the two days after a page surfaced from the governors 1984 medical school yearbook showing a picture of one person in blackface and another dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
The polling of 291 Virginia voters, which was conducted Feb. 2-3 and has a 6-point margin of error, found 48 percent disapproving of his job performance, up 22 points from a Jan. 1-30 survey of 4,326 Virginia voters that had a 1-point margin of error. His approval in the latest poll was 29 percent, down 19 points from the prior survey.
https://morningconsult.com/2019/02/04/virginia-voters-quickly-sour-on-northam-amid-blackface-scandal/
His numbers among independents is awful.
doompatrol39
(428 posts)...that this is all a right win smear job.
What his attempted moonwalking didn't impress them?
Or his advice on how difficult shoe polish is to get off of one's face?
Or the fact that the nickname "Coonman" appears in not one, but TWO yearbooks of his?
I swear, some people are so hard to please.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)doompatrol39
(428 posts)I'm having a harder time believing the number of apologists and conspiracy theorists here on DU.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)doompatrol39
(428 posts)Honestly, that's no more ridiculous (and probably more evidence supporting it) than some of what's been thrown around on here the past few days.
And for clarification, no I don't believe he's been a GOP plant all along. I'm not some conspiracy nut.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)doompatrol39
(428 posts)....while I don't necessarily believe this is anything more than a racist having it bite him in the ass, there's actually far more evidence at the ready to realistically claim he was a Republican plant all along than there is that Republicans are somehow making all of this up for their own gain.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)1) Stick around
2) I have been here sixteen years, well not sixteen years literally
3) The plant suggestion is in jest
4) He's killing us.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,432 posts)doompatrol39
(428 posts)...also lists his nickname as "Coonman". Mercifully, no blackface or Klan costume. He saved that for his Medical school yearbook
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)So the over cashed, unlike the Super Bowl
yardwork
(61,706 posts)doompatrol39
(428 posts)Now my computer screen needs to have the iced tea I spit all over it wiped off.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)... the same people who never say a word about the racist bigot who occupies the White House.
Truly amazing!