More proof Morning Consult is garbage. If Ivey had a +45 approval rating or whatever she'd be up more than 14.
I buy that Ivey has high approval ratings AND that those approval ratings are incredibly soft. Like only 10-12% strongly approving of the job she's doing. So a non-negligible number of voters are saying they approve of her but are also at least willing if not already voting for Maddox.
I was disappointed when things turned out as they did and Maddox didn't get to face a very damaged GOP frontrunner from a primary as we thought things would go if Bentley had attempted to serve out his term, but I feel like this race is going to be closer than people expect because people don't actually have strong feelings about Ivey but do have strong negative feelings toward the status quo and thus will vote for the non-Ivey candidate.
