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Show Me State showing Matt Blunt the door?

While Matt Blunt has finally inched up into political sunlight for the first time in his tenure as MIssouri’s governor - 46% negative, 48% positive, for a whopping net job approval rating of +2 - the recent SurveyUSA poll pitting him against Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon throws Blunt back into deep shade. As the pollster put it, Blunt would be “buried” if a general election between the two was held today. Here’s the fun reading:

In a head-to-head hypothetical matchup against Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon, Nixon defeats Blunt 3:2, carrying every part of the state. The survey of 514 Registered Voters statewide was conducted exclusively for KCTV-TV in Kansas City. Nixon and Blunt are effectively tied among men. But Nixon leads by 37 points among women, a startling gender gap. Nixon leads by 20 points among younger voters, by 18 among older voters. 25% of Missouri Republicans cross-over and vote Democrat in a head-to-head contest today. Independents break 3:2 for Nixon. Blunt carries 67% of the Conservative vote, but loses 73% of the Moderate vote. Blunt runs strongest in the Ozarks, but still trails Nixon by 9 there. Nixon leads by 17 in greater Kansas City, by 19 in Central Missouri and by 25 points in greater St. Louis.

Blunt’s only chance for retaining his job is that voters will somehow forget that he threw tens of thousands of people off the Medicare rolls, cut deeply into vital state services, tried to “zero out” a popular program serving kids with developmental disabilities, and cut finds for adoptive families. Not likely.

(HT to Fired Up! Missouri.)

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