Governor Matt Blunt has lost a bit of ground in the July SurveyUSA tracking poll, which pegs his mid-summer approval rating at 38%.
The Governor lost 4 points in the last month. His 42% approval rating in June 2006 was his best mark since the 14-month tracking poll began measuring Blunt.
51 percent still approve of Blunt here in Southwest Missouri. In the July numbers, Blunt loses moderate respondents 57%-37%, a 6-point drop within the last month.
The most striking change comes in Central Missouri. Last month, 54% of respondents in central Missouri approved of Blunt. Now . . . that number has taken a sky dive, to just 39%.
A 15 point drop in Central Missouri in one month. That seems a bit much. What gives? A bad sample . . . or something more?
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These numbers are worse then Bob Holden's numbers going into 2002 when democrats got wiped out. They make it really tempting for Sarah Steelman or Chip Robertson to pursue their reported interst in running for Governor in 2008. These numbers also might explain why Blunt is already working so hard to raise money for a reelection bid (he has $2 million in the bank). The drop in support among moderates does not bode well for November.
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