Pelosi Poll Higher Than Gingrich

January 19, 2007
Pelosi Poll Higher Than Gingrich

Thirty-four percent of respondents gave the 11-term California representative a favorable rating,
up from 27 percent who did so in a poll conducted in December. Forty-one percent of those surveyed -- a plurality -- said they still hadn't heard enough about her to form an impression, down from 50 percent who had no opinion in December. Twenty-one percent rated her unfavorably, a number that is unchanged from the December poll.

Gingrich Precedent

By contrast, a Los Angeles Times poll in January 1995 found that Gingrich, who engineered the
Republican congressional landslide in 1994, had more unfavorable ratings, at 39 percent, than
favorable, at 26 percent. In September 1996, almost two years after he became speaker, Gingrich's negative rating reached 54 percent.