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I’ve been so eager to see data on how George Santos is doing in his home district that I half considered having TPM sponsor a poll, which is completely insane because quality polls are super expensive and we don’t have anything like that kind of money. But now we can rejoice because Siena College has leapt into the breach. They did a poll and Santos currently clocks in with 7% favorability and 83% unfavorability, which is fairly poor. Even with Republicans he’s at 11%.
Generally, when you poll the constituents of incumbent politicians, you poll “approval” rather than “favorability.” But I think we can likely infer that his approval is fairly low too.
But there’s more!
There’s “Should George resign?” 78% of his constituents say “yes.”
Was it right for Kevin McCarthy to put George on committees? 71% say “no.”
Maybe it will all blow over since voters aren’t paying much attention? Sorry, George. Fully 81% are following the Santos news “very closely” or “somewhat closely.”
Perhaps the most entertaining part of the poll is the results for what people said when asked how they voted. First, 89% of respondents said they voted, which means a significant percentage are liars. But it gets better. 24% said they voted for George Santos, which again means that a whole lot of them are liars or in denial. (Santos won with 54% of the vote.) 17% say they voted for another candidate. 15% refused to answer. (Who can blame them?) Notably 45% said they voted for Democrat Robert Zimmerman which is almost exactly the percentage of the vote he got. Of the 24% of voters who admitted voting for Santos, 31% say they’d still vote for him even knowing what they know now. 63% say they would not have. (What’s wrong with that 31% of the 24%?)
