SURVEY: Vance “More Unpopular” Than Sarah Palin

August 16, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

Americans aren’t vibing with the Republican vice-presidential nominee. On average, only 33 percent have a favorable opinion of Sen. JD Vance, while 42 percent have an unfavorable one.

That is a historically bad net favorability rating for a vice-presidential candidate. We applied our current favorability polling average formula to old polls of six freshly minted VP picks from the past 20 years and none of them ever had an average net favorability rating as low as Vance’s.

It may surprise some folks that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who is usually remembered as the worst VP pick in modern times — had “only” a -2-point net favorability rating by the end of the 2008 campaign.

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Could it be because he’s weird?

JD Vance has a lower favorability rating than Sarah Palin.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance is now the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in modern historyhttps://t.co/LotaaC3Eqa

— Eric Rosen (@erosen1) August 16, 2024