Poll contains good news for Democrats
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Feb 8, 2006 Posted by Bill Luckett
You may have noticed that the Casper Star-Tribune is publishing the results this week of major polling the paper conducted recently, and there is plenty of good news in there for Democrats to celebrate. First, Gov. Dave Freudenthal's job performance was rated as good or excellent by 81 percent of the people surveyed. This is in line with the tracking poll of SurveyUSA.com, which shows the governor's job approval rating consistently in the mid-60s for the bulk of the past year. Meanwhile, Democratic U.S. House candidate Gary Trauner and U.S. Senate candidate Dale Groutage, who are just at the beginning of year-long campaigns against incumbents, are starting out with solid bases of support, and we can only expect that support to grow as people learn more about Gary and Dale while they travel the state to meet with voters.
The poll also shows that education and the economy are the top two issues people most frequently mentioned when asked what they thought the single most important issue is that Wyoming faces today.