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" It seems that Governor Rick Snyder&amp;#039;s popularity among the Michiganders has not blossomed since he got his pet right-to-work law through a while back. In an EPIC-MRA poll of 600 likely voters conducted last week, 61 percent of respondents gave Snyder a negative job rating, as first reported by the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ. Only 36 percent of respondents said Snyder is doing a good job, while three percent were undecided. Those numbers represent a rapid decline in ratings for the first-term Republican. The same firm conducted a poll in late November and found that 51 percent of voters approved of the job Snyder was doing while 48 percent gave him a negative rating...The EPIC-MRA poll is the second of its kind to show falling support for the governor in recent months. Public Policy Polling, a North Carolina-based firm that does work for Democratic campaigns, polled voters in December days after Snyder signed right-to-work bills and pegged his approval rating at 38 percent. This is the same phenomenon that has occurred in several states where Republican governors have combined with Republican legislative majorities to pass laws that are severely at odds with what the people in those states want, the primary constituents for these governors being not necessarily the voters of their state but, rather, various plutocrats from around the country. Down in Florida, Rick Scott&amp;#039;s approval ratings have been pegged in the low 30&amp;#039;s for months now, and John Kasich in Ohio is not faring much better, although, significantly, his numbers began to edge up a little after his union-busting got his ass kicked at the polls in 2011. It is my considered opinion, however, that none of this matters. Most of these people were installed in office for a specific purpose -- to codify into law oligarchical principles at the state level. They were elected specifically to prevent the governments of their states from acting in the general good and to ensure that they acted in the private interests of the people who financed their respective political careers. Because of that, I think, they don&amp;#039;t really see themselves as having a political future beyond the immediate moment. Snyder won&amp;#039;t say if he&amp;#039;s running again, and every poll shows that Scott would lose to renegade Charlie Crist in Florida. (I exempt Kasich from this for now because he previously was something of a national figure and may still have delusions that he is.) They can now move on to well-remunerated careers in the very same corporate universe that they so served as elected officials. They were brought in to wreck the government for private gain, and they&amp;#039;ve accomplished that and, failing a Democratic sweep in heavily gerrymandered state legislatures, the changes they have wrought are probably well-night permanent. Their work there is done. There is one notable exception, and that is Scott Walker, the twice-elected goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to run their midwest affiliate formerly known as the state of Wisconsin. Walker&amp;#039;s approval rating has hovered right at 50 percent even since he beat a recall effort last summer. By far, he is the most popular of all this class of governors with the Republican base, and he has a higher national profile within the party even then Kasich, who once ran for president, and preceded by a decade or so Marco Rubio as The Young Republican With The Cool Taste In Music. (Kasich is a Deadhead of long standing). If he manages to survive his ongoing legal trouble back in Milwaukee, Walker is the one member of this class of governors with a chance to break out nationally. He may in fact be the only one of them that wants to do it anyway. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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