Public Policy Polling delivers a variety of new survey findings about Arizonans:

-Arizona voters are pretty evenly divided in their feelings about Governor Jan Brewer. 46% approve of her to 47% who disapprove. Her numbers are up a little bit from November when she was at 42/49. The effort to recall her is a non starter. Only 35% support removing her from office while 58% are opposed. There are a decent number of voters who don’t like her but don’t favor a recall either.

-John McCain remains unpopular but actually has his best approval numbers in our polling since September of 2009. 41% of voters approve of the job he’s doing while 48% disapprove, up from a 34/55 spread in November. He’s seen a little bit of improvement with both Democrats and Republicans but the biggest gain is with independents, who he’s gone from 23/66 to 37/51 with.

-Jon Kyl’s seen his numbers improve over the last few months as well. His approval rating is now back on positive ground at 48/40, after being 41/44 in November. Voters may be softening towards him as he heads for the exits.

-62% of Arizonans have a favorable opinion of Gabrielle Giffords shortly after her retirement from the House to only 16% with a negative one. She is easily the state’s most popular politician. Her popularity carries across party lines- she’s at 88/6 with Democrats, 62/13 with independents, and 43/25 with Republicans.

-Arizona and Arizona State fans are both taking a wait and see approach with their new football coaches. Wildcats fans are more enthused about their new hire- 28% are happy with Rich Rodriguez and only 5% are unhappy with the choice. But 67% have no opinion either way. A similar 68% of Sun Devil fans have no opinion on the Todd Graham hire, but only 19% are pleased that he was chosen while 13% disapprove of his selection.

One thing interesting in this poll is that the state splits between Arizona and Arizona State with 27% saying they’re a fan of each school. 54% with an opinion on the rivalry pales in comparison to 72% in North Carolina with a take on UNC/Duke and 68% in Michigan with an opinion about Michigan/Michigan State. Arizonans don’t appear to have the same passion for college sports.

-Tim Tebow has a 45/18 favorability rating in Arizona, while Jeremy Lin’s at 19/7. 63% with an opinion about Tebow to just 26% with one on Lin shows that Linsanity still has a long way to go to match Tebow mania. Lin does at least do better with Democrats (24/8) than Tebow who is actually unpopular with them (29/31).

This article appears in Feb 23-29, 2012.

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11 replies on “New Poll: Voters Split on Brewer Approval But Love Gabby Giffords”

  2. Nowhere in the poll did it specifically ask whether the voters of Arizona would support a “recall” but yet it seems to be represented in the interpretation of the poll here in this article. Look….for crying out loud if you’re going to come out and declare an active recall “dead” against this extremist governor and there by tell the hundreds of people working on this recall that their efforts are a waste you should at least be decent enough to do what the right wing rag known as the Arizona Republic won’t do: give out our contact information so that the voters of Arizona have a choice to either put their signatures down for this recall of extremist governor Jan Brewer or not. The media refuses to even let people know our contact information ! I will wait and see if your paper, like the conservative newspaper Arizona Republic deletes our comment here.
    please go to our website:
    recallbrewer.com or call 623-329-0284
    to find out w”here to sign our recall petitions or circulate them ! We really need your help please join our “three Hundred” campaign.
    Leonard Clark 🙂
    of the committee to recall extremist/racist governor Jan Brewer. 2-23-12

  3. Hey Leonard,

    Actually, the Public Policy Polling group–a Democrat-leaning pollster–did ask about the recall. Here’s the excerpt:

    “Arizona voters are divided on whether they approve of Governor Jan Brewer’s job performance, a new poll from Public Policy Polling finds. 46% of voters approve of the Governor’s job performance while 47% disapprove. Democrats strongly disapprove (15/84), Republicans strongly approve (75/18), and a majority of independent voters disapprove (35/54). Most voters would oppose a recall of Governor Brewer, with just 35% supporting such an idea and 58% opposed.”

    Sorry the link didn’t work before.

    BTW, my article was all of one line, and the rest came from the PPP analysis. I am sorry that the link wasn’t working right earlier.

    As far as you contact info, looks like you did a good job of getting it out there and I don’t see any reason why we would delete your comment.

  4. Thank you, the link wasn’t working before so I wasn’t able to access it but…I do appreciate your courteous apply. I love the Tucson Weekly as do many of my friends and family. I just wish you guys would not be so biased…especially for a recall that has just begun. Negative statements in the very beginning of the article such as: as the statement declaring as fact that our officially filed recall RC 01-2012 is a “non-starter” mis-leads the public, many of whom will believe that this is a scientific fact rather than an opinion. That being said, we gathered over 1,500 signatures in two days right under the nose of extremist governor Brewer during the Centennial with no more than six volunteers at a time. Here is my response on behalf of the “recall 300 committee” of Jan Brewer: http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1…

  7. Dems don’t go for Tebow!?….pelosi’s “Duh”……they don’t care for God so why would they care for someone who believes….tell me that it (world) isn’t repeating the mistakes of Sodom and Gomorra!!!????

  8. Governor Jan Brewer is an embarrassment! She is constantly rude and not terribly intelligent. she refused to debate Terry Goddard…after her disastrous “we have did the best for Arizona.” Her backing of all extreme right wing legislation is not in the best interest of the citizens she is paid to represent. Would LOVE to see her recalled…but, running scared the republicans of this state are attempting to mess with the “recall rules.” She is too extreme and is making all Arizonans look like rubes and yokels. I plan to sign any recall if it involves right wing extremists! throw them out.

  9. I entirely agree that the world is repeating the ‘sin of Sodom’ — particularly the Republican Party. Because — as Bob Cap would know if he actually read the book instead of just quoting passages his preacher read to him — Ezekiel says:
    “Now this was the sin of Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.” —Ezekiel 16:49-50.

    In fact, almost all Jewish sources stress that perhaps the most serious ‘sin of Sodom’ was failure to follow the law — almost universal and needed particulrly in desert areas — that the stranger, the visitor must be treated with kindness and hospitality. Also, “Rabbinic writings affirm that the Sodomites also committed economic crimes, blasphemy and bloodshed.”

    I am, btw, unable to find where I am supposed to insert my name, so I’m “Prup (aka Jim Benton)” to use the name I have used for most political — and other — comments in the blogosphere.

  10. Hey PRUP,I don’t know if you noticed but I didn’t quote anything….I just spoke about the two cities that had a lousey rep in the bible….sort of like Obama will do if he stays!!!

  11. Hope you are right, Bob, and he does have a lousy reputation, because that would mean that Democrats were finally starting to nominate real Progressives rather than people slightly to the right of “Eisenhower Republicans” — and I was born during the beginning of Truman’s Presidency, so I know what they were like first hand. A President who is STILL ‘rethinking his views on gay marriage’ this late, a President who offers to accept $4 trillion of spending cuts with no revenue increases, and a President who — iirc — never used the word “Democrat” on his posters — that’s not my idea of Progressive.

    Still, it makes him about a billion times better than any Republican out there, candidate or not. And if they go ahead and nominate the ‘McGovern of the Right,’ dear Willard will insure he’ll stick around. (Now if we’d only realize how weak Romney is, realize that a lot of Republicans will stay home rather than vote for him, and that that gives us a chance to cause a few shocks to Republicans who think they are in ‘safe seats,’ I’ll really be ecstatic.)

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