UNH Poll Shows Re-Election Worries For Massachusetts Gov. Healey

All is not well in Massachusetts, and voters say Governor Maura Healey is to blame.

Healey, who faces re-election next year, cannot be happy with the results of a new poll from the University of New Hampshire showing fewer than half of Massachusetts voters approve of the job she is doing three years into a four-year term.

With likely Republican gubernatorial primary foes Brian Shortsleeve and Mike Kennealy circling in the waters, Healey finds herself surrounded by endless crises, including a multi-billion-dollar immigrant problem, a troubled transportation system, slowing revenue, rising energy prices and a housing shortage.

Healey, a progressive, is faltering just as progressivism, wokeness and her national Democratic Party are slipping out of favor with voters.

The UNH survey found, "Nearly half (49%) of Bay Staters approve of Maura Healey's performance as governor of Massachusetts, 45% disapprove, and 6% neither approve nor disapprove or are unsure."

"Healey's net approval rating is +4, down from +11 in March," according to the poll.

UNH researchers say, "Seventy-eight percent of Democrats approve of Healey's performance while 39% of Independents and only 5% of Republicans approve."

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Housing, immigration, and cost of living are the top three issues for Massachusetts voters, with "left/leftist" politicians and corruption rounding out the top five.

The UNH survey found, "only 37% of Bay Staters say Healey deserves to be re-elected, 40% say she does not deserve to be re-elected, and 23% don't know or have no opinion."

"A majority of Democrats (60%) say Healey deserves to be re-elected, but only 32% of Independents and 4% of Republicans agree."