Gov. Janet Mills’ approval rating has hit an all-time low, according to the Pine Tree State Poll fielded just before and released just days after her verbal spat with U.S. President Donald Trump, where she vowed to sue his administration to continue allowing men to participate in women’s sports.
The poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire from February 13-17, found that Governor Mills’ disapproval rate has climbed an all-time high of 49 percent, now exceeding her overall approval rating of 48 percent.
The governor’s approval rating has dropped dramatically since August of last year when the same poll found 53 percent held a positive view of her performance in office, while her disapproval then was just 43 percent.
Those who approved of Mills’ most commonly cited her handling of abortion, 19 percent, or her handling of COVID-19, 14 percent, as the key drivers of her support.
Among the plurality of Mainers who disapprove of Mills’ performance, the largest group, 55 percent, cited her handling of the budget and overall spending as their principal complaints with her performance.
Under her leadership and Democratic control of the state legislature, Maine is facing an impending half-billion-dollar budget shortfall.
The rest of the governor’s detractors cited a variety of reasons, ranging from her handling of immigration (five percent) to the current housing crunch (five percent).
Pollsters found that housing stood out as the highest priority problem for the largest segment of respondents, or 16 percent of Mainers. The cost of living, state budget, and the economy/jobs all tied for second place, with 11 percent citing each as their top issue.
Despite Mills’ declining approval rating and concerns about her administration’s spending, a majority of Mainers, 55 percent, support her proposal to increase the cigarette tax by $1 per pack. A substantial 42 percent of Mainers want an increase in education spending, while only 36 percent said school budget are too large.
On other issues, a clear majority (55 percent) would also support a state constitutional amendment that specifies that only citizens are allowed to vote, the poll shows.
With Mainers concerned about practical issues such as the budget or housing, Mills is pushing forward in her feud against Trump, vowing to sue the federal government over the right to allow men in women’s sports.
According to recent polling, 79 percent of Americans, including 67 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Americans, believe that men should not compete in women’s sports.
I saw a video of Janet Mills dancing at a “ Drag Show “ .
Is she a lesbian ….or just a woke wannabe .?
I read that her chief of staff is “married “ to another man . Was he at the show also. ?
This just keeps getting weirder by the minute .
Augusta is OUT OF CONTROL .
Trump was right. Marxo-fascist demonrat tyrant Mills’ political career will likely evaporate. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.
Hopefully Biden fluff girl and penultimate embarrassment to our state, secretary of state and piggy petty tyrant Shenna Bellows, will also be a faint political memory soon.
Mills is a disgrace. She should immediately resign. I’m out of state/country right now and I feel like I’m a pervert just for being from Maine.
Mills is an awful governor. I hope Trump takes the funding away. There are private religious schools that do better teaching than Mills on a small budget (because they don’t get federal funding). Note that the students who don’t have the federal funding (the ones who don’t follow the agenda) have the higher test scores.
Mills approval rating might be lower, but not in any significant measure that corresponds with the atrocious job she has done as Governor. Have Maine residents lost their minds? Mills should have a 25% approval rating in a land of the sane.
Janets court threat was unwise. ..
Right after Trump’s NY conviction his poll numbers got even higher than Biden’s and the rate and amount of his campaign donations tripled. Apparently Americans still love their Can Do Bad Boys & Underdogs.
is she really a dude? totally cool if “it” is.. i dont care, be a weirdo, but people should know if their elected leaders have mental health issues…
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Clearly Mills could give two flips about the Maine people. Is allowing men to compete in women’s sports the hill you want to die on while punishing the Maine people with loss of Federal Funding? The majority of Mainers and others nationally don’t want men competing in women’s sports, but that doesn’t deter Mills. This is all about her ego and not what is right or what the majority of the electorate really wants. And what about the dozens of women who have trained for years to compete? Is it fair to steal their dreams to accommodate 1 man who clearly has an unfair physical advantage? Mills and the Democratic Party have lost their collective soul in the pursuit of control and power. Shameful and embarrassing.
I don’t believe those pole numbers for a minute. Her approval rating overall can’t be much above 35% if that. honestly, I wouldn’t even publish this poll rubbish anymore.
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Not many parents approve of this foolishness, but the question that seemingly remains unanswered is what sort of husbands and parents are the boys involved likely to eventually be? We are all stocked up on abusers and spousal violence, and by inference at the very least, seems to encourage violence against women. It doesn’t strike me as very bright to instill some twisted “machismo” violence into the school system harming both the girls and very likely young men with some very unhelpful social attitudes.
Congrats to “Karen” mills. Your children want to be put back up for adoption.
” according to the Pine Tree State Poll fielded just BEFORE and released just days after her verbal spat with U.S. President Donald Trump,” Clearly this so called “Poll” was taken before Governess Mills made a fool of herself infront of many of the governors of other states, so her rating is likely now a lot lower than what is stated here. It is painful to watch the video of the leading representative of our State cross swords with President Trump over the bogus issue where the Governess claims that males should be allowed to challenge females in school sports.
Other commenters have questioned her gender/sexual orientation. I prefer to question her fitness to continue to fill her present role and suggest that Governess Mills should be recalled.
The Female (????) Governor Experiment has proven to be a complete and utter Failure in Maine! Why couldn’t Maine have had someone like Christy Noam or Sarah Huckabee Sanders as there first Governor? Oh, they are republicans and that is a No No in Maine.
This person (she cannot be defined) has been a complete disaster! She has single handily (with help from her Democratic led house and senate) has Defiled the once Great State of Maine in a mere 6 years!
I lived the first two years of General Mills insanity in Maine. It was the happiest day of my life when I crossed the Portsmouth bridge into New Hampshire leaving the insanity that is Maine! Life is so good living in a state whose governor and political landscape is the total opposite of the Tyranny in Maine. A lifelong resident I cannot find anything good about Mill’s Maine and as they say in Maine, She does not “Give a Rats Ass! But, I think she has clearly outgrown her britches and picked a fight with the wrong person this time!
But she has a higher approval than Trump.
What the heck is wrong with Mainers to give her as much support as she has? That apparently is the power of the lying and brainwashing press in this state. And it sure doesn’t say anything good about Mainers.
Another culture wars issue getting blown out of proportion. The argument is not allowing straight, hetero men to compete in women’s sports. No one is doing that. It’s trans people who identify as women to be able to compete in those sports. All like 11 of them. This news outlets reporting is disingenuous calling them men. That’s not the gender they are anymore, call them trans women, trans gender. But that shows the tilt of the author and he doesn’t respect them. Clearly no one wants to understand the nuances of people who are different. No one wants to be respectful of others who are different instead labeling them freaks and make them feel bad and inferior.
Start taking away one right from a group of people, then whats next? Right to vote? Right to marriage ? Right to healthcare (whoops already did that for women!)
It’s the same template all over again from the right-wing talk show BS that trans people are the new bogeyman coming to steal their sports. Just like the immigrants taking your jobs and the socialists taking your money.
The people we should be worried about are the billionaire oligarchs that are actively destroying public institutions, avoiding income tax and turning us against each other on culture wars issues. Just a thought
Before the election it was shown that Maine was just shy of a billion dollars in a budgetary “structural gap.” The dems have finally admitted to half of that and they want to add at least 250 new positions and jeopardize federal funding by stupidly poking the bear. During the pandemic, Janet Mills willy-nilly promulgated executive orders and threatened to jail anyone with the audacity to question her authority. She needs to vacate the Blaine House and retire into obscurity.
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Actually they prefer to be addressed as transvestites or inseminated person.
What Karlos fails to recognize is that the rights of biological girls are being taken away now. If there’s a ‘right’ to compete, then that right is for fair competition. Men identifying as women competing against biological women is clearly unfair. So, the actual question is since you’re taking away biological women’s rights now, what rights are you taking away next?
42 percent want more spending on education. Money is not the problem. Maine test score are some of the worst in the country yet the money spent has gone up significantly over the years. Teach the 3 R’s not the woke bullshit.
Mills is an embarrassment. She has no place in any public office. Same with the limp-noodle that is our attorney general.
Everybody knows Trump lies. Everybody knows Trump is dangerous. Everybody knows that Trump is a nasty bully. Everybody knows that Trump is a Putin puppet, possibly of Musk also. Everybody knows Trump is unable to be objective. Everybody knows that any politician who dares to disagree with Trump will face the full fury of his insecurity and vindictiveness. It’s a shame that politicians of any party struggle to oppose him. One may either agree or disagree with Miller’s point of view but please note that Miller did not succumb to his bullying and schoolboy playground level tantrum and defended her point of view. Seeing someone in America do that nowadays is somewhat refreshing and for that it is something to be applauded. Wake up Maine!!
Woof. Scary thing about this is when you realize at least 48% of people sharing the roads in Maine with us are absolutely bat-shit insane. Stay frosty critical thinkers.
Geez, ‘In Hope!’. “Everybody”, 6x? Really?!! LOL!! You’ve shown you are a redundant, blithering, idiot by that comment. You certainly DON’T live in Maine and definitely DON’T have a clue as to what’s happening here in this state. By the way, the name of the moron governor here is ‘Mills’ not ‘Miller’.
Firstly, you obviously still watch/listen to the mindless babble of the MSM networks and the DEM/Communist’s (of whom are all deep-state operatives) and haven’t a clue that they’ve been LIEING to you for YEARS about EVERYTHING, and fully intend on destroying our country. (THAT, is why the Black and Hispanic voters have turned on the Dem Party. They woke up!) The evidence of how deep their ungodly deviancy goes will soon be revealed to the world and they won’t be able to walk the streets. The Dems have lost their base, and they know it. The louder they whine, the more GUILTY they are! The panic is… DELICIOUS, and Trump supporters are enjoying every minute of it!
Secondly, would you give up YOUR salary to SERVE for the entire term if you (heaven forbid) were rightfully elected by the American people as POTUS? Trump has, TWICE! THAT is just one way he shows how much he cares and loves this country, AND he puts up with and has survived all the ‘slings and arrows’ the likes of you and your ilk throw at him. He could’ve spent his time with his family and enjoyed his later years. But, he couldn’t stand there and watch the country be destroyed by the evil, perverted, pedo-supporting, greedy, elite minority that YOU wholeheartedly support. SHAME ON YOU!! The many incidents of how President Trump has helped and cared for people that were in dire straights are numerous, if you care to research it, but you won’t, as shown by your brainwashed stance on everything in your comments. Trump has quite the sense of humor, and yet you just can’t stand the fact that he loves to troll fools like you! He’s a brilliant strategist, and it’s quite refreshing to see people like you losing your mind over his maneuvering. You parrot that he’s ‘Putin’s puppet’, yet Trump is trying his best to keep us from being involved in any wars, unlike the previous insane administration. He loves our country and freedom so much, he doesn’t want to see ANYONE die and he wants the world to prosper, so he keeps communication open. That’s called ‘diplomacy’, look it up.
Please, do us all a favor and put on your face-diaper, get all those ‘boosters’ while you’re at it and cry all you want like the brainwashed, self-entitled, whiny-@ssed, little clueless snowflake you are. Then, go back to the nasty, vermin-filled sewer you came from. You are NOT from Maine and you are WAY beyond ANY ‘hope’!
In response to, In Hope!:
Your post demonstrates an uncanny lack of perception, & your depth of stupidity has now become overwhelming. “Everybody, Everybody – Everybody” except you, of course, already knows President Trump to be a humorous, honest, and encouraging protector of the American people. He actively opposes the dangerous and the corrupt with unwavering strength and resolve. His diligence with foreign leaders for the safety & prosperity of all concerned is incredible and we are privileged to have him as Commander in Chief. Peace rules through strength. So go ahead, keep your head where the sun doesn’t shine, wear a mask, get another jab, & whine a little more. You have chosen to be deceived. Nice going.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Mills is back snorting cocaine, something her history is well aware of her doing!
Ignorant waffletwats should not be able to affect other people.
Flush Mills DEI transgender freaks and all of their supporters out of America!