For a fourth-term Republican in a Democratic state, Gov. James Douglas sure is popular.
Research 2000, hired by the liberal Blog Daily Kos, polled Vermonters this month on their feelings for Douglas and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy.
More than half of Vermonters have a favorable view of Douglas - 52 percent. Another 41 percent don't like the guy and 7 percent had no opinion. That doesn't seem too different than the results of November's election, when Vermonters easily gave Douglas a fourth term.
Leahy does better - he has a 63 percent favorability and a 33 percent unfavorability.
Not surprisingly, the poll also found that Douglas probably shouldn't even consider running against Leahy for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Leahy would trump him with 58 percent of the vote compared with Douglas' 36 percent. Only 6 percent would be undecided - not nearly enough people to make up that 22-point spread between the two men.
Hat tip to Green Mountain Daily for breaking the news of the poll this afternoon.
-Dan Barlow
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