Most Important Issue

by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies

In the past 2 months there has been a significant shift in what voters perceive as the most important facing Maryland.

Statewide, 23% of voters say that the economy is the most important issue, which is more than double what it was in our last poll at the beginning of the year when 10% cited it. The next most frequently mentioned issues were taxes (20%), health care (13%), and education (10%).

A trend toward voters naming the economy as the most important issue is happening in other states across the country, and this will have important implications in this year’s presidential election.

Governor O’Malley Job Approval

Governor Martin O’Malley’s job rating in the state continues to feel the effects of last fall’s special session.

Statewide, 37% of Maryland voters say they approve of the job Martin O’Malley is doing as governor (down 2 points from January), while 48% disapprove, with 15% offering no opinion.

O’Malley Job Approval Approve Disapprove No opinion
March 2008 37% 48% 15%
January 2008 39% 49% 12%
October 2007 46% 31% 23%
March 2007 52% 21% 27%

Forty-eight percent of Democrats in the state approve of the job he’s doing, while 35% disapprove. Among Republicans, only 17% approve and 69% disapprove, and with independents, 39% approve of the job O’Malley is doing as governor and 51% disapprove.

Dissatisfaction of the job the Governor is doing is particularly pronounced with men, among whom 53% disapprove and only 33% approve.
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Crossposted from Flopping Aces

And war critics say that only the poor and underprivileged choose to serve in the Armed Forces?
Scott covered the story from his perspective. Here’s another:

Prince Harry gives an interview after embargo on news reports of his service in Afghanistan is lifted. Note the U.S. flag on his cap.

The Daily Mail has full coverage. Like most U.S. troops Prince Harry is loyal to his fellow soldiers and demanded to be permitted to go to combat along with them.

Your mother would be so proud: what Prince William told Harry when he went to fight the Taliban
The Daily Mail (U.K.)
28th February 2008

• ‘This gives me my best chance to be normal … All my wishes have come true,’ says Harry
• Harry: ‘William wrote to tell me our mother would be proud’
• Harry: ‘I would never want to put someone else’s life in danger by being a bullet magnet’
• Prince was told by the Queen he would go to war
• MoD praises British press for keeping Harry’s deployment secret until foreign media leaked it

Not exactly a palace: Harry’s living quarters.

Prince Harry sits with Lance Cpl of Horse Chris ‘Dougie’ Douglass atop a Spartan armoured vehicle in the Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan.

More photos at the Daily Mail.

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