NC still likes Elizabeth; unfavorable to John Edwards 69%

John Edwards has become one of the most unpopular people in North Carolina.

So says Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, after the group's latest survey found that 69 percent of North Carolina voters have an unfavorable opinion of the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate. Only 19 percent of those surveyed had a favorable opinion of Edwards, a Democrat who lives in Orange County.

But PPP found that his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, remains popular in the state, with 58 percent of those polled having a favorable opinion of her.

PPP surveyed 755 North Carolina voters from May 8-10. The survey's margin of error was plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.



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The whole sordid affair just seems so sad to me. What a waste. When are male politicians ever
going to learn that affairs in this country aren't tolerated?

:shrug:

doesn't go over to well. Republican's have no standards so delivering divorce papers to a wife in the hospital is no big deal.

Things like that are what keep him from being the Republican nominee. I disagree with him on probably everything, but he is among the more articulate Republicans and can project a reasonable image - as he did in his climate change debate with Kerry. (though he seems to have taken back all his reasonable comments - suggesting he maybe wanted to just be defeated rather than absolutely killed in the debate.)

JRE EARNED his approval rating.

He wasn't all that popular before he cheated on his wife. Very unpopular before he hit the national stage, because he didn't do squat as senator.

I'm not sure I can dig it up, but I found a poll that was done 2003 or 04 suggesting that due to his high favorables he probably would have been re-elected as NC Senator--despite the Repub myth that he was unpopular. The Repubs were just more vocal about not liking him.

He also had very high favorables--better than Obama and Hillary--when he was first running for the nomination--on a national basis.

We elected him to serve us in the Senate to replace Lauch Faircloth, one of the most conservative, right-wing assholes on the planet. Edwards campaigned on how he was going to Washington to represent the people of North Carolina and help undo some of the damage done by Faircloth and his now-deceased partner-in-crime Jesse Helms.

So, what does he do when he arrives in Washington? Starts campaigning for President. I guess he was so busy doing that that he didn't bother to hone his knowledge about George Bush and his desire for neo-con world domination, so our new Senator promptly voted for the Iraq War Resolution. Meanwhile, because John vacated his senate seat, we lose the seat to another right-winger Richard Burr. Thank you, John Edwards.

John Edwards is a self-serving individual who made millions because he was a good trial lawyer. His wife went along with his whole plan. I'm sorry she has cancer, and that she had to suffer the embarrassment of having the affair made public. But I find the two of them to be typical political animals.