Morning Consult: The 10 Most Popular and Unpopular Senators (includes 3 Dem primary candidates):

[ucrdem]

From Wednesday. Apparently it polls constituents, not nationally, and is released quarterly. 2 Dem candidates made it to the top 10 most popular, Sanders and Klobuchar, and one to the top 10 least popular, Warren. Make of it what you will:
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"On a daily basis, Morning Consult is surveying over 5,000 registered voters across the United States on their senators":

The 10 Most Popular Senators:

1 - Angus King (I - ME)
62%
28%

2 - Bernie Sanders (I - VT)
62%
32%

3 - Patrick Leahy (D - VT)
61%
24%

4 - John Hoeven (R - ND)
57%
22%

5 - John Barrasso (R - WY)
57%
26%

6 - Amy Klobuchar (D - MN)
56%
30%

7 - Michael Enzi (R - WY)
54%
25%

8 - John Thune (R - SD)
54%
32%

9 - Jeanne Shaheen (D - NH)
54%
34%

10 - Ed Markey (D - MA)
53%
23%
................
The 10 Most Unpopular Senators:

1 - Mitch McConnell (R - KY)
36%
50%

2 - Susan Collins (R - ME)
45%
48%

3 - Bob Menendez (D - NJ)
34%
42%

4 - Joe Manchin (D - WV)
45%
42%

5 - Elizabeth Warren (D - MA)
49%
41%

6 - Lisa Murkowski (R - AK)
41%
40%

7 - Jon Tester (D - MT)
47%
40%

8 - Roy Blunt (R - MO)
37%
39%

9 - Rand Paul (R - KY)
40%
39%

10 - Chuck Grassley (R - IA)
44%
39%

https://morningconsult.com/senator-rankings-q2-19-2/

[bluewater]

1. This is Great News for... Kirsten Gillibrand!

I guess she has moved passed the Al Franken issue.



Seriously though, Massachusetts is not quite as blue a state as people might think. They elected Mitt Romney and Bill Weld as Governor and Scot Brown Senator. Hence the dichotomy of Warren having both high favorable and unfavorable numbers.

[ucrdem]

3. It's good news for Independents

Angus and Bernie are the most popular. Go figure. Other than that, not too much to see here really. I just checked and Warren is doing pretty well on approval, but has a high disapproval and that's what puts her in the bottom five. The rest are all in the middle. To be honest there's not a lot of variation. McConnell ranks last and that seems richly deserved!

[George II]

13. In Maine and Vermont respectively. This poll doesn't measure "popularity" of any of those Senators..

...in New York, California, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.

[Green Line]

20. But Ed Markey is in the 10 most popular

[George II]

2. Sorry, but that is a bad poll. As you point out it only asks constituents. Since BS won with 67%....

...of the vote last year, he's down 5% in "popularity". One wonders what his % would be nationally.

[ucrdem]

4. Not terribly determinative, no.

Agree with you there.

[bluewater]

7. It's a fine poll of each Senator's constituents.

Like it or not, Sanders is one of the most popular senators as ranked by their home state constituents.



Facts are stubborn things, eh?

[George II]

9. One of the more popular Senators in Vermont, nowhere else. But it's not tough....

....for a white man to be "popular" in a tiny state that's 95% white. Look at the top five - ALL from virtually all-white small states. In the top ten only two aren't from small virtually all white states - Klobuchar and Markey.

On the other hand, let's look at the net popularity of the top five:

King +34
Sanders +30
Leahy +37
Hoeven +35
Barrasso +31

Sanders isn't even #1 in Vermont!!!

[ucrdem]

12. LOL

As someone pointed out in another thread, facts are stubborn things!

[bluewater]

17. 'for a white man to be "popular" '

Was that a racial comment you just made? About Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont?

Not a good look. I think I have seen enough.

Thank you for the discussion.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. I think it's clear everyone but Bernie needs to drop out.

[ucrdem]

6. In Vermont, sure.

He's ready to be president of the Christmas tree farm, I'll give you that!


p.s. once you subtract disapproval, Leahy is actually doing better. But Bernie would make a great Veep of Vermont!

[betsuni]

8. ...

[Gothmog]

23. Yep

[George II]

10. Sanders' plus/minus isn't even #1 in Vermont, he's 7% behind Leahy.

[Gothmog]

24. K&R

[lapucelle]

11. More people live in my TOWN than live in Vermont.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempstead,_New_York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont

[ucrdem]

14. That could explain why he seems to have a lot of free time . . .

Nice work if you can get it!

[Celerity]

15. sorry, I do not want Rump to win in a 40 plus state rout, which is what Bernie would lose in

He mainly has himself to blame, as he foolishly and falsely self-labels as a democratic socialist when he IS NOT one. This stubborn and wilful folly is going to be used by the Rethugs to falsely broad-brush all our Democratic candidates as socialists, which, in the reactionary, dumbed-down US, often equates to 'commies!' for a huge mouth-breathing, slack-jawed chunk of the electorate.

[PDittie]

18. LOL

[Nanjeanne]

16. Fascinating that the top two are Independents.

[shadowmayor]

19. How in the hell

Did Rafael Edward Cruz (aka Ted) not make the bottom 10 list?

[Hortensis]

21. Interestingly, both I-Sanders and I-Angus King are rated

by govtrackus.com quite low in general influence and legislative effectiveness. The inverse correlation with this poll seems to suggest that's just what those who voted for them wanted. Takes all kinds.

This is a great site for a survey evaluation of congress overall, including of ex- members, and contains "score cards" for each legislator for years 2013-2018.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357/report-card/2018

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/angus_king/412545
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/angus_king/412545/report-card/2018

[Gothmog]

22. K&R