by Guy Page
Phil Scott, one of the winningest stock car races in Vermont history, knows what it’s like to be out in front by a comfortable margin.
Yesterday, Interactive Polls released the findings of its August-October poll numbers. Scott ranks first among popularity by a wide margin: 84% approve of his performance, 13% disapprove, according to a survey of Vermonters conducted by Morning Consult Political Intelligence.
The next closest was the governor of Wyoming, with 74%. New England apparently likes its governors – Chris Sununu of New Hampshire ranked fourth with 64%, and Ned Lamont of Connecticut eighth with 61%. Maura Healy of Massachusetts ranks 13th with a 59% approval rating. However, Rhode Island’s Dan McKee and Maine’s Janet Mills are both stuck in the back of the pack, at 44th and 34th respectively.
The poll results don’t offer explanations about why Vermonters approve or don’t approve. Vermont has no lack of problems and chronic crises: housing shortage, worker shortage, homelessness, suicide, growing violent crime, all connected with a burgeoning opioid epidemic. But it appears that, on the surface anyway, Scott isn’t the target of voter unhappiness about these problems.
Scott has not announced whether he will run for re-election, nor stated when he plans to make that announcement. Miro Weinberger of Burlington is considered likely to jump into the gubernatorial race on the Democratic ticket.
Asked at today’s press conference what it feels like to be the most popular governor in the nation, Scott was self-effacing. “It’s a snapshot in time,” he said. “I don’t put too much stock in it.”
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Governor Scott
As a lifelong Democrat, I implore you to seek reelection.
John McCormick
Bristol
These polls… one always wonders who is polled, and how many…if you pick who you are polling…welp…that kind of predetermines the outcome.
Like most elections in the past ten years, the ones who win aren’t — by straw polls — the most popular by the voters…
This governor is popular with the globalists that’s for sure.
He jumps anytime they have some new agenda to try out on the human guinea pigs of Vermont. He and Fauci are close close close.
Scott has betrayed Vermonters by making us play a globalist game we never opted into…that would be the POLITICIANS who sunk us in so far we can’t get out now…even if we wanted to.
Ten years ago, we could have closed the borders of Vermont, and survived on what we produced in the State…
NOW?
We are tied to the government teat, and cannot feed 20% of us. Let alone house us…Lets take a look at how those stats measure up, past and present…hmmm???
112,704 people might disagree. Out of 370,968 votes cast in 2020 for president, that would be 30.38% of the voters that might disagree.
Who would want to be trumpeting this statistic, other than Scott?
Who would want nothing to change in our state?
Why when we have a crisis in affordability, homelessness, crime, drugs, an educational system in such disarray as to boggle the mind, a healthcare system broken, and oppression of free press, speech and constitutional rights would there be such approval?
Who does this benefit?
Where’s the money?
If he’s so popular,
HOW COME THE VTGOP HAS NO MONEY?
NO PLAN???????
NO FOLLOWERS?
NO STRUCTURE?
HOW COME THE VTGOP CAN’T GET ANYTHING…..ANYTHING DONE?????
HOW COME THEY CAN’T GET ANYONE ELECTED?????
There needs to be much more investigation, something smells very bad in that pile of compost….
Thank you, you summed it up very well. There is no GOP party in Vermont, it has been infiltrated and is controlled by something much worse then old democrats.
As a seventy-two-year-old conservative Vermonter, Scott has seen my last vote,
I took him at his word, and that word was liberal nonsense, a conservative he is not !!
Wake up people,
Who else? So you would opt to make the democratic candidate stronger by refusing to vote for Scott who vetoed the progressive legislation.
76 year old conservative here, and I never voted for that rino clown.
Ha ha ha !! Thank you Guy Page for the laugh today ! I needed that 🙂 We all know how polls are… remember Hillary ? They never thought she would lose ! It really is sad to see what is going on in the once great USA and the once great State of Vermont! It’s time for some big changes or people will continue to leave this state for greener pastures. As far as our Rino in the Gov office well… he can pound sand !
How right you are, I am looking for greener pastures in a red state.
Yeah, the democrats love their rinos.
I don’t believe 84 percent of people agree on anything. Seems to me he’s all in on the transgender agenda and only looks to stop the most extreme Democrat priorities, if that.
The more you know, the more you can discern the purpose and incentives of polls and who is behind them. Those peddling “information” to drive markets and skew opinions are well compensated for their efforts. The report is an interesting read, but here is some background. Looks like this popularity poll is more for Wall Street and the bankers to keep credit ratings afloat rather than pull the plug (aka credit lines.) Pension performance and bonds are vitally important these days!
Who is Morning Consult?: “Political Intelligence is a proprietary platform of Morning Consult and provides real-time polling data on political elections, elected officials and voting…” By the way, if you are on X (f/k/a Twitter) Morning Consult is biased and propping up Biden.
What is political intelligence?
United States Government Accountability Office April 2013 GAO-13-389
“Companies and individuals use political intelligence to understand the
potential effects of legislative and executive branch actions on business,
finance, and other decisions. The STOCK Act of 2012 directed GAO to
report to Congress on the role of political intelligence in the financial
markets. GAO reviewed (1) the legal and ethical issues, if any, that may
apply to the sale of political intelligence; (2) what is known about
the sale of public and nonpublic political intelligence, the extent to
which investors rely on such information, and the effect the sale of
political intelligence may have on the financial markets; and (3) any potential
benefits and any practical or legal issues that may be raised from
imposing disclosure requirements on those who engage in these activities. ”
Financial Market Value of Government Information Hinges on Materiality and Timing
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 specifically
defines political intelligence as information that is “derived by a person from
direct communications with an executive branch employee, a Member of
Congress, or an employee of Congress; and provided in exchange for financial
compensation to a client who intends, and who is known to intend, to use the
information to inform investment decisions.” While no other laws or ethics rules
specifically govern political intelligence activities, securities laws and executive
and legislative branch ethics rules and guidance do provide guidelines for
government officials to protect material nonpublic information (e.g., information
that has not been disseminated to the general public or is not authorized to be
made public). For example, insider trading laws apply to both the executive and
legislative branches and prohibit the disclosure of material nonpublic information
derived from employees’ official positions for personal benefit.
They didn’t poll me or anyone on this platform.