Kamala Harris's approval rating sinks to 38% -- in California

[wellst0nev0ter]

Feinstein's approval also hit an all-time low of 30%, and Padilla's at 34%. These numbers should raise alarm bells among ALL Democrats.

Views of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s job performance have tumbled to the lowest point in her three-decade Senate career, with just 30% of California voters giving her positive marks in a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.

Respondents gave similarly unenthusiastic marks to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose popularity is underwater, with 38% approval and 46% disapproval, while they are evenly divided in their rating of President Biden. The assessments of both Biden and Harris dropped sharply from last summer, in line with their slumping poll numbers nationwide.

(snip)

Her colleague, Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla, gets slightly higher grades from voters in the IGS poll: 34% approve; 26% disapprove. A plurality of respondents — 40% — have no opinion of his job performance, signaling that Padilla, 48, remains an unknown to many in the state since being appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year to serve the remainder of Harris’ Senate term.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-16/poll-california-feinstein-harris-biden-padilla

[brush]

1. Wonder what that poll showed on the Newsom recall?

It sure seems to be down on Democrats.

[bigtree]

2. nationally she's paired in the polls with the president

...weird to focus on a poll from the state she no longer represents in the Senate.

[Chainfire]

5. We can't ignore the facts that neither Biden nor Harris are not impressing even

all of the people who voted for them. I understand that a lot of people didn't vote for Biden as much as voted against Trump. The Biden Presidency is polling at numbers that aren't far off from the overall average rating for Trump.(depending on the polls around 38% for Trump's average, Biden's approval is around 42%) Perhaps the President needs to figure out a way to inspire at least all of the people who voted for him. I still approve of Biden, I think that he is a good man, and I am proud for him to be my President, but I am in the minority, and I know it.

I know that people don't like to hear this, so I am slipping on my asbestos suit to await the responses.

[bigtree]

9. ALL politicians are polling badly

...from the president on down.

THIS IS THE POLL YOU SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTING:

Mitch McConnell, RCP average 2/15: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/mitch_mcconnell_favorableunfavorable-6672.html#!

Favorable: 23.0

Unfavorable: 57.5

...You're politicking wrong.

[Chainfire]

11. The bad thing is that McConnell is polling badly because he is not Fascist enough

for the rest of the Nazis.

I do however get your point. People are unhappy with the way they are being governed in general. If you are from a place like me, (Florida) you have cause to be clinically depressed, which, under the circumstances I am proud to be.

[Cha]

25. Thanks to the Fucking m$$$$$$m

[Lovie777]

3. Oh gosh, they always doing polls re Democrats . ...

let's see the GQP. Geez. There is always a warning for Democrats, never fails.

[brooklynite]

6. You can't poll the approval of Republican office holders if there aren't any.....

[msongs]

4. padilla/harris should tour the state and difi should resign and be replaced by a newsom

appointee asap

[bigtree]

12. maybe

...but not because the LATimes ran a negative poll from a couple hundred respondents.

[wellst0nev0ter]

14. "A couple hundred respondents"

The Berkeley IGS poll surveyed 8,937 California registered voters Feb. 3-10. The poll was administered online in English and Spanish. The estimated sampling error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Read the article before commenting.

[bigtree]

19. you got my point

...doesn't really make your point pointing to 8,937 out of 39.54 million Californians.

[JanMichael]

21. Do you not believe in statistical sampling? It isn't tea leaves.

My guess is that the media assault in Biden and Harris has worked well even in California.

Just because we don't like what we hear doesn't mean it is not somewhat based on reality.

[bigtree]

22. lol

...

A California user’s guide to political polls: Six easy tips
https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/11/california-polls-right-or-wrong/

...here's a good source showing Dems edging out republicans:

https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings

[JanMichael]

24. It is the sample size and margin of error dismissal that I wonder about.

Like you've never seen number polled and margins of error before. So what if everyone polls bad.

Sorry.

[bigtree]

26. it's a farce to present a state poll on the Vice President as consequential to anything

...look at the individual House races in California.

I don't see a republican advantage, but I could be missing something.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings

[JanMichael]

27. Why so? California is a fabulously great Liberal state. If a Dem is not doing well there then where?

Don't use Manchin or Sinema...

Plus Cali is tracking about the same as everywhere else:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/kamala_harris_favorableunfavorable-6690.html

[bigtree]

28. it doesn't automatically translate to individual races

...except in someone's vivid imagination.

Again, tell me where Democrats are in trouble in California? Nowhere of any consequence to our majority that I can see.

House races aren't usually nationalized, and no republican op is going to view any of California's current House prospects as bellweather elections for their party's success in the midterms.

In what universe has a vice president's popularity EVER had ANY consequential influence in a midterm congressional election? It's just mind-numbingly absurd.

But, do tell us.

[JanMichael]

29. I am only commenting on the validity of polling. Which you poo pooed.

I like Harris a lot but a huge number of people in this country really do not not like her at all. I do not think her approval/disapproval numbers in California are even close to wrong.

You specifically made comments about the validity of the polling. I don't think the approval rate for Harris in California is very far off from the poll in the OP.

Does that translate to midterm voting? Does a bear shit in the woods? Yes, unless they are in a zoo. So no because some bears are in zoos. I.e. I do not know.

[bigtree]

30. sure, Jan

[JanMichael]

31. Adios.

[bigtree]

32. adieu, adieu!

[Sympthsical]

23. California isn't going to elect a Republican senator

Not any time soon, at least.

Though, yeah, Feinstein. I don't think she should have run again.

I really hope this is her last term. We need some turnover and to give our bench an opportunity. It feels like a lot of good potential Democratic candidates have been too long in the Prince Charles position of, "Keep waiting, because I'm still here!"

[cilla4progress]

7. Republic obstruction

is working

[unweird]

8. Who knows what the poll respondents use as performance criteria?

I doubt most of the poll respondents have any inkling of how to gauge performance and are going off the Republican agitprop.

[iloveObama12]

10. The LA Times???

They're about as right as you can get in a blue state like California

[Xoan]

13. Idiocracy Rules!

[ificandream]

15. Harris needs to do cheerleader rallies like the Orange Bimbo does (/sarcasm)

[budkin]

16. All these bad numbers are mostly pandemic related

You're going to see them turn around quite a bit once COVID fades into the background.

[wellst0nev0ter]

17. And if that doesn't happen?

Remember, we were about to turn the corner last summer

[budkin]

18. Then we're going to get slaughtered in the midterms

That's reality.

[bigtree]

20. reality check

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[wellst0nev0ter]

33. Biden won big in Virginia

Tell me what happened in the governor's race.

Redistricting only solves part of the problem, and you can't gerrymander a state.

[George II]

34. Did the LA Times publish poll numbers for republicans or was this just a "bash Democrats" article?