Poll Shows Fitzgerald Has Strong Voter Support

From ILLINOIZE blog:

Alberto Gonzales may not give Patrick Fitzgerald high job approval ratings, but the people who pay his salary sure do.

We asked the voters of Illinois if they approve or disapprove of the job Patrick Fitzgerald is doing as U.S. Attorney. Let's start with one number -- 73.7%.

That's the number of people in Illinois who had an opinion about the job Patrick Fitzgerald was doing. When was the last time that 73.7% of voters in Illinois had an opinion of the job their U.S. Attorney was doing?

So what do the numbers show? 62.4% of Illinois voters approve of the job Patrick Fitzgerald is doing while only 11.4% disapprove of the job he is doing. Here's the breakdown:

31.2% Strongly Approve
31.2% Somewhat Approve
7.2% Somewhat Disapprove
4.2% Strongly Disapprove
26.2% Couldn't Offer an Opinion

His highest approval came from non-Chicago, Cook County voters at 73.6% approve and 9.1% disapprove. The collar counties were second at 67.6% approve and 7.2% disapprove. Read the crosstabs here.

And here's the irony. His highest approval comes from Democrats.

65.2% - 11.2% Democrats
58.5% - 11.9% Republicans
62.1% - 10.7% Independents

The bottom line? Illinois voters support the job Patrick Fitzgerald is doing by a very wide and very strong margin.

And the irony to this is that Fitzgerald's boss approval rating is in the tank with both the public and all political parties. Even more of Gonzo's own party wants him gone.