A new Quinnipiac poll just released shows that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has received a 54% approval rating from a group of nearly 1000 Pennsylvania residents. The poll showed that 33% disapprove of the job Wolf is doing and another 12% either responded that they do not know or did not respond.
Quinnipiac said in a release that this approval rating is Wolf’s highest since being elected in 2014, and it marks the governor’s first positive approval rating since 45% of respondents gave him a thumbs up and 39% gave him a thumbs down in August 2015.
“Pennsylvanians are feeling good about their state and its economy,” Mary Snow, polling analyst for the Quinnipiac University Poll, said Thursday, “and that seems to be helping Gov. Tom Wolf’s job approval rating.”
The poll comes just days after a U.S. News & World Report analysis that named Pennsylvania the tenth-worst state in the country. The Keystone State’s rating suffered because of poor infrastructure and a relatively weak economy, among other factors.