Posted on 04/23/2009 12:22:28 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now have an unfavorable opinion of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano following her department’s release of a controversial report on right-wing extremist groups last week. Twenty-three percent (23%) say their view of her is Very Unfavorable.
Thirty percent (30%) have a favorable view of the former Arizona governor, with eight percent (8%) Very Favorable, in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
However, one-out-of-four voters (25%) do not know enough about Napolitano to have an opinion about her one way or the other.
At the time President Obama nominated her for the Homeland Security post in early December, 43% had no opinion of her. Since that time, her favorable ratings have remained constant, but her negatives have increased. That’s fairly typical for politicians as they get better known.
Fifty-nine percent of Arizona voters said the president made the right decision when he chose Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security. In late September of last year, 48% of Arizona voters rated Napolitano’s job performance as good or excellent.
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Sixty-five percent (65%) of Republicans now regard Napolitano unfavorably, as do 50% of those not affiliated with either major party. A plurality of Democrats (46%) has a favorable opinion of the new Homeland Security secretary.
House Republicans are calling for Napolitano to step down or be fired over the report which said returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan posed a potential domestic terrorism danger, along with pro-life activists and those who question the federal government. Napolitano has since apologized for some of the wording in the report but has stood by its overall conclusions.
Napolitano’s fellow Cabinet member, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, continues to draw positive marks for her performance. Fifty-six percent (56%) have a favorable view of Clinton, with 33% Very favorable, while 42% rate her unfavorably, including 29% whose view is Very Unfavorable.
These findings are roughly comparable to those in mid-February as Clinton went on her first official overseas trip as secretary of State.
Women voters have a more favorable view of Clinton than men. She remains a highly divisive figure from a partisan standpoint: 89% of Democrats view her favorably while 82% of GOP voters regard her unfavorably. Among unaffiliated voters, her favorables are 53% and her unfavorables are 44%.
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The other 65% are flaming morons.
All of these pollsters re:The Zero have ACORN on speed-dial.
or completely uninformed.
How many voters confused her with Janet Reno?
How many voters know who is the favored contestant on American Idol?
She didn’t call the 30% favorable terrorists.
Was this before or after the people were polled as to whether they supported her political witchhunt of conservatives?
“The other 65% are flaming morons.”
55% - don’t give her more credit than she is due!
In other news, 45% of Americans view BULL DYKES unfavorably.
Thanks Mr. Lawyer. Your Law school taught better math than from my engineering school. :)
More BS. Ask 10 people who Janet Napolitano is (at random as you walk down the street) and I’ll bet 8 don’t have a clue.
Probably only 45 percent know who she is.
See the past Presidential results for further evidence of that theory.
Methinks Rasmussen is oversampling Democrats again...
And 53% think Janet Napolitano is Andrew Napolitano which is why they do not have a negative opinion of her.
Janet Napolitano is an extreme example of the application of the “Peter Principle” to a kindergarten teacher.
Actually 45% is high considering most people wouldn’t know her from a hole in the wall. That means of those who know here, most do not like her.
“Thanks Mr. Lawyer. Your Law school taught better math than from my engineering school. :) “
No sweat! I started out in Pre-Med Biology (I was too lazy and messed that up after 2 years)... and switched to computer science when my dad kicked my *** (CS is what my undergraduate degree is in).
I don’t think I could have handled more math than I had to have in CS (which was unfortunately 3 semesters of Calculus, although I had already had the first 2 in biology)... props to you for getting through all that.
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