VIRGINIA GOVERNOR BOB MCDONNELL NOW AT TWO YEAR-LOW APPROVAL RATING, WILL NOT BE PRESENT SATURDAY AT STATE GOP CONVENTION

By ERIC ODOM
Published: May 17, 2013 | 0 Comments

 Embattled Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s office confirms he is not planning on participating in his party’s convention this Saturday. There are lots of opinions as to why this might be. Some believe it has something to do with a mass walk-out being planned by a group of delegates angered over McDonnell’s record tax increase on Virginia this year.

Most believe McDonnell is indeed considering a run for higher office in 2016. With recent accusations over possible unethical contributions and gifts, and the record tax increase that has infuriated Republicans across the state, McDonnell simply can’t afford to have footage of his own party walking out of the room in his presence. This isn’t just bad optics. When you consider the coming GOP primary war for the 2016 GOP slot, this is downright horrific optics.

Making matters worse, McDonnell’s approval rating is now at a two year low.

Gov. Bob McDonnell has dipped to his the lowest job-approval rating in two years in a statewide poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, but he appears unharmed by his ties to the top executive of a troubled nutritional supplements maker who lavished gifts on McDonnell and his family.

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Forty-nine percent of the 1,286 registered voters interviewed from May 8-13 approved of the governor’s performance while 28 percent disapproved and 23 percent didn’t know.

That’s down from his rating of 53 percent in statewide Quinnipiac surveys from February and March and his high of 62 percent in October of 2011, the first year the Connecticut-based university began polling in Virginia, a swing state in the 2012 presidential election.

Record tax hikes force fed by a Republican governor do not go over well by an already over-burdened electorate. McDonnell is quickly becoming the poster child for how not to finish up a term in office when higher office is on the mind.

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