Morning Consult Poll: Most popular Senators, Q2 2019

[ehrnst]

In each poll, Americans indicated whether they approve or disapprove of the job performance of their U.S. senators. For each question, they could answer strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, strongly disapprove, or don’t know / no opinion.

https://morningconsult.com/senator-rankings-q2-19-2/

[LiberalFighter]

1. That is misleading...

They cannot reasonably rank them by popularity when there are 50 different states. The popularity can only be reasonably compared using the same group of people in the poll. The best they could do would be the two Senators from a state, the governor and other officials elected state-wide, and maybe college coaches from the state.

[ehrnst]

2. This poll tracks their popularity among their constituents, not the country as a whole.

From the link in the OP:

In each poll, Americans indicated whether they approve or disapprove of the job performance of their U.S. senators. For each question, they could answer strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, strongly disapprove, or don’t know / no opinion.

This is why Senators from states with small, homogenous populations usually do best in this poll.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I understand that. But to rank them when they don't have the same constituency is wrong.

[ehrnst]

5. The qualifier "among their constituents" is what the ranking is about.

And yes, you can see that states with small, homegenous populations are at the top of the list, unsurprisingly. States with larger, more diverse populations are not going think alike as much.

There are others on DU who view this specific tracking poll as very, very important in determining who is actually "most popular" in the U.S. - I am not among them.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211268034

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10028920507

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141750658

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12511861075

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12511325657

Approval ratings of constituents is valuable information in predicting the chances of incumbents who are running.

[StClone]

3. Agreed. Like Thune in South Dakota

Most every S. Dakotan would say yeah, "I like him." Then ask why they would reply because he's MY Senator. But why? "I just told you!"

[maxsolomon]

11. And that is the level of thought most Murkins put into politics.

You know who understands that? President Asshole.

[George II]

6. What's interesting is that many of the top ten are from relatively small states.....

...that are mostly Caucasian. It's very easy to be "popular" with a much smaller number of people, most of which are of similar demographics, in other words pleasing 600,000 mostly Caucasian residents is a LOT easier than pleasing 40 million residents of dozens of different demographics.

That makes Amy Klobuchar and Ed Markey as the most impressive of the top ten.

Population/State (millions)

5.6 MN
6.9 MA

1.3 ME
0.6 VT
1.3 NH
0.7 SD
0.9 ND
0.6 WY

[ehrnst]

7. Makes sense - Sauerkraut is going to rank high on favorite foods at a Biergarten... (nt)

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Now that you mention it, think about the millions of rabid racist pieces of SHIT who live

in ANY big state whether CA or NY or TX etc.

So any patriotic Senator, i.e. Democrat, is going to have a large dislike factor.

I am glad people like their Senator and I hope one of ours wins...

[George II]

10. That's a big part of it - it's a lot easier to be "popular" in a state where everyone looks like you

[Gothmog]

8. K&R