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TexasTowelie

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Wed Dec 19, 2018, 06:42 AM Dec 2018

Poll shows GOP Kentucky governor unpopular and trailing Democratic challengers

Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has angered many people in the past year.

Bevin has fought a much-publicized battle with teachers over pensions.

He blocks people on social media who criticize him.

And Bevin often clashes with the media, most recently in his video lambasting the Louisville Courier-Journal launching a one-year partnership with nonprofit ProPublica to investigate Kentucky state government.

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Independent polling firm Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy found 38 percent of Kentuckians approved of their governor's performance while 53 percent disapproved. Mason-Dixon, based in Jacksonville and Washington, D.C., interviewed 625 registered Kentucky voters Dec. 12-Dec. 15. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/18/poll-shows-ky-governor-matt-bevin-unpopular-and-trailing-democratic-challengers/2340280002/

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