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A month ago, 18 percent viewed him unfavorably, a number that now stands at 37 percent. But nearly half of those polled said their view of Ensign was unchanged by the news.
Ensign's Favorability Ratings Plummet in Wake of News of His Affair
In May, those who saw Ensign favorably numbered 53 percent. That's down now to 39 percent, but it is still better than the 34 percent who see Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid favorably or Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons who clocks in at 10 percent.
Sixty-two percent say Ensign should not resign while 29 percent say he should. The Review Journal said Nevadans appeared troubled by the fact that the aide with whom Ensign had the affair got a significant pay raise while it was going on.
Ensign is not up for re-election until 2012 and Mason-Dixon's Brad Coker said "Time is going to be his greatest ally with this," Coker said. "As long as there's nothing more to it and he goes back to Washington and does his job, he could come back. He wouldn't be the first politician to have an affair who didn't get booted out of office for it."
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(Ensign is not up for re-election until 2012 and Mason-Dixon's Brad Coker said "Time is going to be his greatest ally with this," Coker said. "As long as there's nothing more to it and he goes back to Washington and does his job, he could come back. He wouldn't be the first politician to have an affair who didn't get booted out of office for it.")
Hell, if the opposite were true, Ted Kennedy would have had to have some feline DNA spliced into his genes.
Posted by: NObama
| June 23, 2009 12:31 PM
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