A poll conducted in late December and early January shows support for Gov. Wes Moore slipping. Gonzales Research and Media Services spoke with more than 800 registered voters statewide by landline and cell phone. The margin of error comes in at plus or minus 3.5%
The results show support for the incumbent governor falling by 12 percentage points from his election in 2022. Back then Moore enjoyed a heady 64% approval rating. Today 52% of Maryland voters approve of his performance in office. His disapproval rating has swelled from 25% to 41%.
Moore gets the biggest rating boost from African Americans, women and residents of Baltimore City. Rural voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the governor at the rate of 72%.
In his preface to his latest poll, Patrick Gonzales refers to a “civic exhaustion in America today, a feeling that public life has drifted from deliberation into spectacle.” Perhaps what he terms “a quiet fatigue” explains some of the other numbers his poll generated.
A majority of Marylanders, 58%, say they pay too much in taxes. Only 41% of these voters think the amount they pay is “about right.”
While 50% of those polled say they would vote to re-elect Moore if the election were held today, 28% say they would prefer an unnamed Republican challenger.
Voters who think taxes are too high favor a Republican candidate over Moore by 13 points, 47% to 34%.
Gonzales Research and Media Services has done polling for Ed Hale, a current Republican candidate for governor.
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