A new poll of Illinois voters by Emerson College says Gov. JB Pritzker carries a 40.5% approval rating.
That’s down 13.5% from the most recent, previous approval ranking I can find on Pritzker. That previous poll by Morning Consult had him at 54% approval and was published in July 2023.
The new Emerson poll asked, “Do you approve or disapprove of the job JB Pritzker is doing as Governor?” Approvals were 40.5% and disapprovals 35%.
The poll also asked Illinois voters about Donald Trump and Joe Biden, finding Biden with a 35% approval rating, while 44% disapprove of the job the president is doing. Biden leads Trump by nine points in a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup, 43% to 34%. Fourteen percent support someone else and 9% are undecided. That’s a substantial drop from 2020 when Trump lost to Biden in Illinois by 17%.
Emerson’s news release on the poll is here and the full results can be downloaded by clicking here.
From the pollster:
The Emerson College Polling Illinois poll was conducted October 1-4, 2023. The sample consisted of 468 Illinois voters with a credibility interval, similar to a poll’s margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points; the sample of Illinois residents is n=489 with a credibility interval of 4.4 percentage points. The data sets were weighted by gender, age, race, party, and education based on the general population using a sample of n=489 participants and allowing the natural fallout to create the sample of n=468 voters. Turnout modeling is based on US Census parameters, and Illinois voter registration and voter turnout data by regions (IL SOS). Data was collected by contacting a list of emails provided by Aristotle, along with an online panel of voters provided by Alchemer.
-Mark Glennon
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Are Illinois voters in a competition to see which state has the dumbest voters?
Unfortunately your typical low IQ dem voter will fail to see that a different dem candidate will have the same policy failures as Biden. Kind of like in sports when the team sucks and they fire the coach.
Also, if Pritzker has 40% approval and 35% disapproval, that only adds up to 75%. That means 25% have no opinion at all or can’t decide what they think of him, which seems rather high.
41.72% of the state of IL looked at Jimmy Carter in 1980, and thought, hey, I need more gas lines, more foreign policy disasters, more inflation, more stagflation, more economic malaise, and more pain…that’s not too far off from the 40% who look at Pritzker and think “He’s doing a good job.”
That same 41.72% of IL voters in 1980 probably also looked at Ronald Reagan and believed the media hype that he was just some dumb cowboy actor who would surely blunder us into WWIII.
Thick skulled voters in Cook County would vote for a dish rag if it had a D after its name rather than a Republican. In most national or statewide elections that all the D candidate needs to win. Who remembers Pat Quinn winning a total of 3 counties out of 102 and winning the governors seat by only 15K votes and then proudly declaring he had been given a “mandate” to be the governor. Unless Crook County reads the tea leaves and figures out that democrats have driven Illinois to the brink of total disaster nothing will change.
Biden shouldn’t be up 9 points over a houseplant. Shows the ignorance of the blue IL voter.
Biden’s 9% lead over Trump today must be concerning for him, considering he won the state in 2020 by 17%.
Biden’s handlers are scrambling to find his replacement. They know full well that his shenanigans won’t play out again yet people blinded by party lines, such as in IL, would vote for his corpse over Trump.
If Biden is +9 statewide, he could be underwater downstate, say by -10, but +15 or +20 in Chicago and the burbs.
Democrats want to have national elections so the urban sheep in large cities can overwhelm smaller sections of the country and expand the chaos we see now.
This is important info for GOP presidential candidate. Now they know that Illinois will be a waste of time and resources, so they can ignore the state and spend elsewhere.
GOP candidates have known this since Clinton beat Bush in 1992 by 16 points. The last time a Republican won an Illinois presidential race was Bush over Dukakis in 1988.
These polls prove that the pain isn’t bad enough yet in Illinois. The fact that anyone would support any Democrat over any Republican is the sign that we haven’t hit bottom yet.