GA: Public Policy Polling: Close Race in Georgia for Governor

[ElectionAtlas]

New Poll: Georgia Governor by Public Policy Polling on 2014-05-22

Summary: D: 43%, R: 43%, U: 7%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Lief 🗽]

Wonderful news!

[windjammer]

(yn) scandal, scandal! (yn)

[free my dawg]

Glorious.

[pbrower2a]

Nathan Deal:

38% approval
46% disapproval


He may have thrown away the typical advantage that Republicans have had in Georgia politics for nearly twenty years.

44% approval at this stage gives an elected incumbent about a 50% chance of winning the general election because the typical incumbent gains about 6% in a vote share by campaigning.

This could be a partisan poll, but 38% approval is absolutely awful. Barack Obama probably does better than that in Georgia.

[ElectionsGuy]

Looks like a toss-up, but remember that there is a runoff in January if neither gets >50%.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Getting Nunn or Landrieu across the 50 percent threshold is an important factor in closing out the Senate in our favor. And Ga gov race is a stepping stone in helping us do just that with the stronger candidacy ofNunn instead of Landrieu.

[Nutmeg]

And Ga gov race is a stepping stone in helping us do just that with the stronger candidacy ofNunn instead of Landrieu.

Elections for Senate and governor are different.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Complete rubbish, just like most PPP polls (at least this early).

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I was referring to Nunn and Carter family names may not be as tiresome or burdensome as Landrieu. Scott Walker and Nathan Deal has corruption problems. The GOP rode a tea party wave in 2010 on Bank Corruption. We an do the same to a lesser extent.

[pbrower2a]

I was referring to Nunn and Carter family names may not be as tiresome or burdensome as Landrieu. Scott Walker and Nathan Deal has corruption problems. The GOP rode a tea party wave in 2010 on Bank Corruption. We an do the same to a lesser extent.

Barack Obama knew that if he was not to be the new Herbert Hoover, he had to back the banks. It is unfortunate that he was unable to force a major reform (breaking up the banks with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act) had to wait... and it has waited.

Of course the Tea Party has loyally served the right-wing interests that pushed it into a seemingly-intractable majority, and its pols will get lavish funds for re-election campaigns so long as they adhere to the Party Line.

...Back to the point: Corrupt and abusive politicians are always vulnerable despite a partisan advantage. News media can make or break a politician, and the same journalists who recognized Senator Barack Obama as one of the most promising of politicians steered clear of Governor Rod Blagojevich. Corrupt and abusive politicians typically have something to hide, and if there is not enough vile material to stick for the time, it still eventually slips out.  Just think of former Governor McDonnell in Virginia.

Nostalgia is a poor substitute for overall competence and integrity, but it is a good one-time gimmick. People have won once on one-time gimmicks and shown that there is more to them. Georgians at least have benign nostalgia; Jimmy Carter was by most accounts a fine governor of Georgia, and Sam Nunn was a fine Senator. That said, with (dis)respect to the Governor, corruption and abuse of power are failing propositions.

Nathan Deal goes down. You see it here. Scott Walker will be harder to dislodge; he has developed a cult of personality that blinds nearly 45% of the electorate to his awfulness.

[Gass3268]

Complete rubbish, just like most PPP polls (at least this early).

Seriously stop with this.

[Adam Griffin]

[free my dawg]

Complete rubbish, just like most PPP polls (at least this early).

So by your logic, an unbiased pollster like Rasmussen is right, so Carter is in actuality up by 7.

Oldiesfreak's view of this race sounds pretty damn good to me.

[LeBron]

Didn't PPP (Better Georgia) also have a poll that had Carter 45-40 over Deal before? If that's the case, then Deal is closing the gap a little bit and keeping Carter to a minimum and not close to 50%. Carter would have to somehow win over some of the Libertarian vote and then most of those few undecided if he can avoid a runoff with Deal. I still feel kind of pessimistic about being able to knock off Deal, but I like our chances more here than against Haley.

[Miles]

Didn't PPP (Better Georgia) also have a poll that had Carter 45-40 over Deal before?

PPP's done two other polls of this race for liberal groups since the start of the year:

For Better Georgia in late February: Deal +3

For MoveOn in early April: Carter +1