Vice Presidential Candidates and their Approval Ratings in their Home State.

[MadBadger]

SUSA does approval ratings for Governors and Senators for certain states, and I'm just going to report on the VP candidates and how their state views them.

Candidate approval-disapproval
1. Hillary Clinton (NY) 52-46
2. Sherrod Brown (OH) 50-39
3. Jim Webb (VA) 51-39
4. Kathleen Sebelius (KS) 62-34
5. Bill Richardson (NM) 56-42
6. Ted Strickland (OH) 56-37
7. Tim Kaine (VA) 56-39

And Republican Special Tim Pawlenty (MN) 52-46.

- Interesting Notes: is that Hillary Clinton is down from 60-37 in December.
- Sherrod Brown is up from 46-42 in April
- Jim Webb is up from 47-41 in April
- Ted Strickland is up from 54-39
- Kathleen Sebelius is roughly the same
- Time Kaine is down slightly from 57-35, but nothing major
- Bill Richardson is up slightly from 53-44.


http://www.surveyusa.com/50StateTracking.html

[Barack_America]

1. Sebelius's numbers are particularly interesting...

...Considering she does so poorly in the potential VP head-to-head matchups. People assume it's because she's unknown, but I wonder if there's a bit of a "if not Hillary, then no woman" thing going on.

[gcomeau]

3. Especially considering her constituents.

She's in the state where the Democrats are most heavily outnumbered by Republicans, and she still pulls in the highest favorability numbers of anyone on that list.

[underpants]

2. Kaine is more popular than Webb?

:wow:

you'd never know it from all the bellyaching done here in Richmond