Michigan residents do not have confidence in statewide political leaders.
Governor Jennifer Granholm has earned “good” or “excellent” performance ratings from fewer than 35 percent of respondents in Michigan State’s “State of the State Survey” for the past five years. Granholm’s 2009 ranking in that survey was 31 percent, up from 23 percent in 2008 but way below her high o 57.2 percent in 2003.
Legislators also fare poorly in statewide polls. A November 2007 poll by EPIC-MRA in Lansing gave a record 83 percent disapproval rating to legislators. A year later, in October 2008, 80 percent of respondents in a Denno Noor Research poll gave the Michigan Legislature a poor or fair rating.
