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Poll: Hogan to leave office with a 77% approval rating in Maryland

Jan. 17 marks Gov. Larry Hogan’s last full day in office, and a new Gonzales Poll finds Hogan is leaving the office with a 77% approval rating.

Pollster Patrick Gonzales said that Hogan’s approval rating has remained between 67% and 78% since 2016.

“In an eight-year period, Hogan’s approval rating has remained very high among Marylanders,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales would not say how this might impact a possible presidential run for Hogan, or why his popularity didn’t impact last year’s election, where Republican candidates for governor, attorney general and comptroller were soundly defeated.

Hogan did not endorse Republican Dan Cox, who lost to Wes Moore in the governor’s race, because of Cox’s support for former President Trump.

View poll results here:

As for President Biden, his approval rating stands at 58%, 4 points higher than a similar poll last year.

The poll found the increase is due to a more than 20-point increase in the president’s approval rating among unaffiliated voters.

Gonzales said that the approval rating among the group was 30% last year. It is 51 % in the recent polls.

The poll found only 31% of Marylanders think the nation is headed in the right direction, while 59% say it is heading in the wrong direction.

The poll gives Congress a 19% approval rating, while 73% disapprove.

 As for issues, 29% say the economy and the 24% say crime and public safety are the most important issues facing Maryland, 10% say education, 10% say roads and transportation, 8% say affordable housing, 7% say climate change and the environment, and 6% say the immigration problems being created by the chaos at our southern border.

For Black voters, crime is number one at 35%; among Republicans, inflation and the economy are atop at 46%.

Democrats overall are split between crime (26%) and inflation (24%).

The poll of 823 registered voters was conducted over a six-day period ending Jan.14.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5% 

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