TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In office just six months, Gov. Rick Scott has kept his campaign promises and then some: cutting corporate taxes, reducing the size of government, drug testing welfare recipients, making government workers pay into their pensions, and privatizing Medicaid.
Yet the conservative Republican is one of the country's least popular governors, with only 29 percent of voters saying in one recent nonpartisan poll that he's doing a good job.
It's a woefully low job performance rating for a governor in office less than a year, much less a Republican governor in charge of a swing-voting state that will be critical to President Barack Obama's re-election chances.
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