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(9/20/07)
A new InsiderAdvantage / Majority Opinion Research poll shows Gov. Sonny Perdue with a 54 percent job performance approval rating among rank-and-file Georgians, even at a time when more than one-third of them believe Georgia is headed in the “wrong direction.”
The poll was conducted Monday among 508 Georgia voters and was weighted for age, race, gender and party affiliation. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
“This indicates Governor Perdue is doing relatively well in overall approval rating,” said nationally-syndicated columnist Matt Towery, chairman and CEO of InsiderAdvantage. “Most governors I’ve seen around the country don’t do much better than that.”
“But only about 47 percent thought the state was headed in the right direction, with 36.1 percent saying Georgia is headed in the wrong direction,” added Jeff Shusterman, President of Majority Opinion Research.
Asked to rate the importance of five specific issues in next year’s legislative session, 40.3 percent said the top issue was replacing the property tax with an enhanced sales tax. |
