The liberal’s favorite polling company laments the fact today that Jay Nixon is only eight points more popular than embattled South Carolina governor Mark Sandford:

Public Policy Polling:

“Here’s something particularly remarkable about Mark Sanford’s 36/51 approval breakdown in our poll today- those numbers are actually better than average for the nine Governors we’ve looked at the ratings for since the beginning of September. He’s less popular than Jay Nixon, Jack Markell, and Tim Kaine but more so than John Baldacci, Jan Brewer, Jim Doyle, Bev Perdue, and Jon Corzine.

I’d been planning to write a blog post for several weeks about the least popular Governors in the country but was waiting to do the South Carolina poll because I assumed Sanford would be on the list…but he’s not!” Read more…

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