Not the good citizens of New Mexico, that's for sure.
The only reason she won her first term was that the Democratic nominee was Diane Denish, who'd been Bill Richardson's Lt Governor, and he ended is term so very unpopular that a lot of voters turned against Denish. Unfairly, but they did. Then in 2014, when Martinez was running for re-election, the Democrats had five candidates in the primary, and it was won (with 35% of the vote) b-y Gary King, son of a former Governor, because of who his father was. He does not seem to have campaigned very much, and what little he did was completely ineffective, so Martinez won re-election.
Susana Martinez was not very popular in her first term, and was extremely unpopular in her second. She had no idea how to work across the aisle, and when she vetoed bills without putting in writing why, as required in this state, Democrats sued and several (maybe all, I'm forgetting all the details) of the bills she'd vetoed became law anyway.
Then there was New Mexico's version of pizzagate which involved a party she attended at a local hotel, guests throwing bottles from a high (for this city) floor, and Martinez trying to get police officers to back off from evicting the noisy guests. Plus she was demanding to know who'd called in the complaints and on the recordings sounds somewhat less than sober. In many ways it was a trivial story (Governor attends party where guests get rowdy) but her clumsy attempt to get special treatment completely backfired and destroyed any hope she had of a political future.
By the time she left office her approval rating was 37%. So if she's the most popular Republican Governor, I shudder to think how low the popularity of the least must be.
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