Politico has a story out today discussing Nancy Pelosi’s extreme unpopularity with voters and how it’s damaging her party’s chances for reelection. There are some familiar faces affected by this trend:
Steve Stivers, the Republican nominee in Ohio’s Columbus-based 15th District, said his strategy to defeat freshman Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy is simple.
“Her record mirrors Pelosi’s,” Stivers said. “Really, my focus is going to be on Pelosi and Kilroy.”
In Kilroy’s district, where Pelosi’s name and image are well-known, internal campaign polling shows Obama’s favorable rating is even — at 49 percent on each side. That may help explain why Pelosi is a target and Obama really isn’t.
A recent survey of 4,000 likely voters in 10 western districts by the GOP-aligned American Action Forum showed Obama’s favorability in those districts slightly lower at 44 percent. But Pelosi even polled well below that—at 29 percent.
WaPo echoes the same note – get ready to hear all the bad things Pelosi’s done a lot before election day.