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Rick Snyder’s Approval Rating Plummets Due to Right to Work Law
The people of Michigan are letting Gov. Rick Snyder know that they don’t approve of him, or his right to work law. According to PPP, Snyder’s disapproval rating has shot up to 56%.
PPP conducted the first poll of the state since Gov. Snyder and his party shoved right to work down the throats of the people of Michigan, and the results aren’t good for the governor and his new law. According to PPP, Snyder’s disapproval rating has gone up a net 28 points since the last time they polled the state. The governor has gone from a 47%-37% approve/disapprove in November to a 38%-56% split today. Snyder’s approval rating has plunged nine points, while his disapproval rating as jumped by 19 points.
The polling points to the right to work law as being responsible for the governor’s plunge. Fifty one percent of voters in the state oppose the right to work law. Only, 41% support it. If they were given a chance to vote on it, voters would overturn the right to work bill by a 49%-46% margin. Unions are still very popular in Michigan, (52%-33% approval) so it appears that Snyder may have delivered a self inflicted wound that could jeopardize his reelection chances.
Snyder now trails every Democratic opponent that he was hypothetically matched up with, but too much shouldn’t be read into those numbers. It is a long time between now and 2014, but the numbers do reveal the depth of Rick Snyder’s immediate decline.
The popularity of unions in Michigan along with the law being forced on the residents of the state could add up to some real long term political problems for Rick Snyder. Voters tend not to forget when politicians defy their will. Snyder looked headed for reelection, but he tossed all of that in the trash the minute that he and the Republicans in the legislature conspired to enact right to work.
It is doubtful that voters are going to forget what Rick Snyder has done to their state.
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Anne
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Gov. Rick Snyder is one of many wolves in sheeps’ clothing who were voted in in 2010, and even many of those Michiganders who voted for him must be keenly suffering a bout of voters’ remorse. I also wonder if there are those who were so gleeful about Gov. Snyder’s ramming of this law down his constituents’ throats who are now among the 56%.
He has done so much to harm the people he was elected to serve that these latest shenanigans should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that because of him and his henchmen and henchwomen that Michigan comes to rival Wisconsin with respect to being worst for business.
Michael
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Hes a scumbag. Plain and simple. Same goes for Walker in Wisconsin and Perry in Texas, as well as every other lowlife Republican in the red south who support the rich by signing devastating legislation against the masses with a pen in one hand, while preaching Jesus’s teachings from a bible held in the other. The easily brainwashed masses continue to vote Republican and throw their paychecks and their rights away.
I guess the middle and lower class as a whole havent taken enough abuse to wake up.
The GOP must be laughing their rich white asses off.
majii
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
All of the conservatives rallied around Nathan Deal to elect him our governor here in GA in 2010, and the bloom seems to have fallen off this rose, too, because Deal has a 38% approval rating, just like Snyder. Some conservatives never seem to “get” that just because a politicians says he/she is a conservative, it doesn’t mean he/she will be good at governing.
Sally
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Yes. There is no evidence that businesses prefer RTW states. And those who might move in are of the WalMart mentality..we’ll give you a job for a pittance, and here’s the phone number of Social Services so you can get food stamps to feed your kids. Oh, and by the way, we need you on midnights next week, so find a sitter. Yeah, Ricky, is a loser. And if he dares to sign SM59 allowing guns in schools, he’ll be out of office before 2014.
djchefron
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
When are people going to realize that the first syllable of conservative is con.The good people of Michigan who have been conf*ckerized.Now do something about it in 2014
David
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
I’m surprised that he didn’t shove Right to Work (for less) into the same legislation that imposed “Emergency Managers” on the more “Ethnic” cities…
Michael
Dec. 18th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
The only thing conservative about todays Republican party is their belief that those who make ten or more times the average american citizen should be able to “conserve” as much of their money as possible at the expense of the suffering of millions of people. These people are so twisted that they find it acceptable for somebody (anybody) to have so many automobiles/homes/businesses/boats/planes/etc, that they cant even keep track of everything theyve acquired, even if it comes at the expense of others who must work 16 hrs a day at jobs like walmart/mcdonalds, live in dangerous crime infested ghettos, have virtually no time to spend with or even raise children, and suffer debilitating CURABLE illnesses for lack of basic access to healthcare.
If believing that wealth should NEVER come at the expense of anothers pain, is socialist, then sign me up.
Right to work? How about a right to have a doctor prevent my untimely demise in this nation that CRIMINALIZES suicide and aims to criminalise abortion. How about a right to earn a livable wage so that I DONT have to ask taxpayers to help feed my wife and I.
I just have so little respect for this country. Greatest country in the world? No. A great country would make poverty (especially starving children, elderly, and disabled vets) a priority.
If I gave you twenty bucks, would you run off and share it with someone? Fifty bucks? Maybe, but probably not.
Who the fuck is stupid enough to believe that handing rich people more money would make them more inclined to hire more people or raise our benefits?
I guess the skyrocketing profits of the last decade wasnt enough…
Well… Lets just all work for free instead. Lets have all our paychecks go directly to the rich! Surely once they get enough money they will create enough jobs to end unemployment, and then everything will be perfect!
Dont like the way that sounds? Working for 1/2 of the employers in Oklahoma is pretty much just that, and now Michigan…
Edith Stubbs
Dec. 19th, 2012 at 11:51 am
I will remember. I will give $$$ to Snyder’s opponent. I will work to elect his opponent. He betrayed us, turned MI into Michissippi. We will even the score.
William Heino Sr.
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Governor Rick Snyder says, …. if workers see no “value” in unions they should not have to pay union dues.
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Oh! Happy Day for those workers who are attracted, not to those employment opportunities in a low wage job, but they do see this “value” in an employment opportunity making a good living wage, not having to pay their fair share in union representation. Not one penny, in recognition of the livable wage he or she is about to receive, and acknowledging some support for what unions fought for, and who will continue to fight for, health benefits, safe working conditions, retirement benefits, a living wage, worker representation.
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Realizing the “value” choice these workers made, with good safe working conditions and benefits, they can now feel secure in stable wages, and now, maybe for the first time, or in a long while, being able to feed and care for their families. Being able to purchase those things that a living wage offers. Living the American dream. Perhaps now, being able to put a down payment on a home? Being able to sleep at night. All this because he or she made the right “value” choice and decided to rather than take a job opportunity with lower wages, with no benefits, no value, these workers realize without too much thought, there is “value” in a union environment, and with no union participation whatsoever to support the very environment that choices in what “value” offers. One which fosters good working conditions now, and into the future. The other without.
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The worker choosing “value“, Governors Snyder’s cryptic observation, one would think the worker be responsive, to play fair. But “right to work” is not about what’s fair.
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One then wonders, why is the police and fire unions exempt? Why not make this Governor Snyder’s “value” thing fair for everybody while we are destroying unions? Where is this “equal protection” of Article 1 of the Michigan Constitution speaks of?
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The argument that “right to work” is a solution…