Huckabee Sanders Has Lowest AR-Gov Poll Ratings In 20 Years

by Antoinette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate
October 30, 2023

Fewer than half of Arkansans approve of the job Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is doing in her first term in office, according to the 25th annual Arkansas Poll released on Monday. 

Sanders received a 48% approval rating, the lowest for an Arkansas governor in the last two decades. However, Sanders fared better than the approval ratings for Republican U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (42%) and John Boozman (40%), and President Joe Biden (33%).

Janine Parry, poll director and professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, started to poll in 1999, making it one of the oldest state-level polls in the country, according to a press release.

This year’s poll was conducted through 801 phone interviews — cell phone and landline — with randomly selected adult Arkansans from Oct. 4-22. In addition to approval ratings for public figures, poll questions addressed life in Arkansas, political party and ideology, current issues, level of satisfaction with public services and willingness to seek help for mental health concerns.

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