Just as has been the case for most of Rick Scott’s four and a quarter years in office, a new poll out today shows more Floridians disapprove of his job performance than like it.
The new Quinnipiac survey shows that 49 percent of those Floridians polled do not approve of the governor’s current job performance. 42 percent are supportive of his efforts.
Meanwhile, the Sunshine State’s new senators in Washington do high positive approval ratings.
Marco Rubio has a pretty impressive 54-35 percent approval rating. Bill Nelson has a 45-30 percent approval rating.
For Rick Scott, it’s nothing new to have a negative job approval rating. In fact, for a certain portion of his first term in office, the governor was mired in the mid to upper 30s.
And yet twice now, of course, he’s been able to beat the candidate the Democrats have put up against him.
That’s why with talk of him contemplating a U.S. Senate run in 2018, Democrats should know by now that it would be foolhardy to downplay his chances. With his unlimited ability to pay his own way, and the Dems’ notable lack of winning state-wide offices, the governor’s low approval ratings have never appeared to harness his ambitions in how he wants to govern Florida.
