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Dayton
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Gov.
Kasich
approval rating climbs to 40%
Tuesday,
February 14, 2012
Gov. John
Kasich is still building off a rocky first year in office that saw one
of his
landmark initiatives defeated at the polls, but his approval rating is
improving among Ohio voters, according to a new poll.
About 40
percent of registered voters approve of the job Kasich is doing,
compared with
about 46 percent who disapprove, a Quinnipiac University poll of 1,421
registered voters found. In a January survey, his approval rating was
39-48
percent, and in October it was 36-52 percent. October marked the
lead-up to the
November election, when Senate Bill 5, the controversial
collective-bargaining
law that Kasich spearheaded, was defeated soundly at the polls.
“The
governor still has almost three years until he faces the voters, but he
would
certainly like to get his job approval into the mid-40s, at least. The
good
news for him is that he is slightly more popular than the legislature,
which
gets 48–35 percent disapproval,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a release.
Approval
for the governor’s performance is split down party lines, the poll
found.
Republicans support Kasich by a 71-19 percent margin, but Democrats
disapprove
of his job 70-17 percent, according to the poll. Independent voters are
more
closely split at 49-35 percent.
The poll
also found that voters agree by a 54-40 percent margin that Ohio should
become
a “right-to-work” state, which would ban requirements to join unions as
a
condition of employment.
“Given the
assumption that the S.B. 5 referendum was a demonstration of union
strength in
Ohio, the 54–40 percent support for making Ohio a ‘right-to-work’ state
does
make one take notice,” Brown said in the release. “In the S.B. 5
referendum,
independent voters, who are generally the key to Ohio elections, voted
with the
pro-union folks to repeal the law many viewed as an effort to handicap
unions.
The data indicates that many of those same independents who stood up
for unions
this past November on S.B. 5 are standing up to unions by backing
‘right-to-work’ legislation.”
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