Montanans give Brian Schweitzer a big thumbs up

Today's Billings Gazette contained an article about the feelings of Montanans towards various state political figures and the such. We zeroed in on this:

Schweitzer gets majority nod in poll

By MARY PICKETT
Of The Gazette Staff
November 10, 2005

Most Montanans like the way Gov. Brian Schweitzer is doing his job, according to a poll conducted by Montana State University-Billings students.

More than 68 percent of the 401 state residents interviewed for the poll taken the first week in November said that they approved of Schweitzer's job performance. More than 14 percent disapproved, and about 17 percent were undecided.

The highest approval rating that Schweitzer's predecessor, Judy Martz, received was nearly 37 percent in 2001, said Craig Wilson, MSU-Billings political science professor and a co-director of the poll with sociology professor Joe Floyd.