{"id":13295,"date":"2011-03-22T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-22T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:42:28","slug":"brown-maintains-favorable-ratings-as-state-waits-for-budget-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/brown-maintains-favorable-ratings-as-state-waits-for-budget-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Maintains Favorable Ratings as State Waits For Budget Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Field Poll just released their survey on approval ratings (PDF)<\/a> on Gov. Brown and the Legislature.  You probably know how this is going to go.<\/p>\n

After nearly three months in office, Gov. Jerry Brown’s job performance is winning the approval of California voters by more than a 2-to-1 ratio, while the state Legislature continues to receive low marks, according to a Field Poll released today.<\/p>\n

Brown has the approval of 48 percent of registered voters who were surveyed; 21 percent disapprove of his performance so far. Nearly a third, 31 percent, have no opinion. (SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, there is just a lot of tepidness here.  The no opinion group is quite large, and that is because, up until this point, there has been no real impact of his tenure.  However, if we are going to see movement on these numbers, it will come in whatever election season we have for the special election this spring\/summer.<\/p>\n

No big surprise on the Legislature’s numbers, which are running at a 16% approve, 70% disapprove right now.  The problem with numbers on the Legislature generally is that you are really asking about two entirely separate groups.  It isn’t like the Legislative Republicans are rowing in the same direction in any sense of the word.  So, there is something there for everybody to hate.  And given the lack of action in the Legislature, why not hate them.<\/p>\n

That is, of course, a product of the 2\/3 supermajority rule for revenue.  If the majority were able to rule, then people could form an opinion one way or the other.  But as it is, in this perpetual state of standstill, you can’t really be surprised that people hate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Field Poll just released their survey on approval ratings (PDF)<\/a> on Gov. Brown and the Legislature.  You probably know how this is going to go.<\/p>\n

After nearly three months in office, Gov. Jerry Brown’s job performance is winning the approval of California voters by more than a 2-to-1 ratio, while the state Legislature continues to receive low marks, according to a Field Poll released today.<\/p>\n

Brown has the approval of 48 percent of registered voters who were surveyed; 21 percent disapprove of his performance so far. Nearly a third, 31 percent, have no opinion. (SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, there is just a lot of tepidness here.  The no opinion group is quite large, and that is because, up until this point, there has been no real impact of his tenure.  However, if we are going to see movement on these numbers, it will come in whatever election season we have for the special election this spring\/summer.<\/p>\n

No big surprise on the Legislature’s numbers, which are running at a 16% approve, 70% disapprove right now.  The problem with numbers on the Legislature generally is that you are really asking about two entirely separate groups.  It isn’t like the Legislative Republicans are rowing in the same direction in any sense of the word.  So, there is something there for everybody to hate.  And given the lack of action in the Legislature, why not hate them.<\/p>\n

That is, of course, a product of the 2\/3 supermajority rule for revenue.  If the majority were able to rule, then people could form an opinion one way or the other.  But as it is, in this perpetual state of standstill, you can’t really be surprised that people hate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-204"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}