2012 Election: Approval Ratings for Incumbent Senators
Approval rankings from Pubic Policy Polling in December 2010
In the approval/disapproval rankings of all Senators up for re-election in 2012, Klobuchar (D-MN) the most approved Senator by her constituents; Lieberman (I-CT) the least approved.
The following ranks incumbent Senators by the spread between what percentage of their constituents approve their performance in office versus the percentage that do not approved. For example, Lieberman receives the lowest approval ratings, with 33% approving his performance against 54% disapproving, a negative spread of 21 points.
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/12/senate-approval-ratings.html
Approval Spread Senator
59/29 +30 Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
53/29 +24 Scott Brown (R-MA)
56/34 +22 Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
50/34 +16 Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
50/35 +15 Herb Kohl (D-WI)
42/28 +14 Ben Cardin (D-MD)
49/35 +14 Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
50/37 +13 Dianne Feinstein(D-CA)
45/33 +12 Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
50/40 +10 Jon Tester (D-MT)
45/36 +9 Tom Carper (D-DE)
47/39 +8 Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
43/37 +6 Jim Webb (D-VA)
42/37 +5 Kirsten Gillbrand (D-NY)
40/37 +3 Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
36/33 +3 Bill Nelson (D-FL)
44/41 +3 Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
41/40 +1 Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
43/44 -1 Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
36/40 -4 Bob Casey (D-PA)
41/48 -7 John Ensign (R-NV)
33/54 -21 Joe Lieberman (I-CT)
Unrated
Conrad, Kent (D-ND)
Manchin, Joe (D-WV)
Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)
Nelson, Ben (D-NE)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI)
Barrasso, John (R-WY)
Corker, Bob (R-TN)
Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT)
Lugar, Richard G. (R-IN)
Wicker, Roger F. (R-MS)
Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)
