Poll Shows Fitzgerald Has Strong Voter Support
Alberto Gonzales may not give Patrick Fitzgerald high job approval ratings, but the people who pay his salary sure do.
We asked the voters of Illinois if they approve or disapprove of the job Patrick Fitzgerald is doing as U.S. Attorney. Let's start with one number -- 73.7%.
That's the number of people in Illinois who had an opinion about the job Patrick Fitzgerald was doing. When was the last time that 73.7% of voters in Illinois had an opinion of the job their U.S. Attorney was doing?
So what do the numbers show? 62.4% of Illinois voters approve of the job Patrick Fitzgerald is doing while only 11.4% disapprove of the job he is doing. Here's the breakdown:
31.2% Strongly Approve
31.2% Somewhat Approve
7.2% Somewhat Disapprove
4.2% Strongly Disapprove
26.2% Couldn't Offer an Opinion
His highest approval came from non-Chicago, Cook County voters at 73.6% approve and 9.1% disapprove. The collar counties were second at 67.6% approve and 7.2% disapprove. Read the crosstabs here.
And here's the irony. His highest approval comes from Democrats.
65.2% - 11.2% Democrats
58.5% - 11.9% Republicans
62.1% - 10.7% Independents
The bottom line? Illinois voters support the job Patrick Fitzgerald is doing by a very wide and very strong margin.
5 comments:
That percentage would be even higher if Fitzgerald and his office had bothered to indict a few more of our (insert your choice of expletive here) members of the Chicago City Council.
It always boggels my mind that corruption seems to stop at the Cook County Line. If it is not Cook it must be Springfield. I guess I am fortunate to live out in the land of milk & honey and honest politicians
Let's see...Fitzgerald goes on a vindicative hunt for Libby, Ryan and Vrdolyak and Cook County Democrats approve of the attack.
Where is the Irony in the Democrats approving of using the Federal Prosecutor to go after political opponents?
Interesting.. Looks like Fitzgerald has a higher approval rating than his own boss. Pretty darn good for someone that was almost on the USA target list for being axed. And irony to this is that Gonzo's own political party wants him gone.
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