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1. For Dan McKee, there's no sugarcoating the new UNH poll; a 19% job approval rating is dismal. But it's also much worse than the 43% approval rating McKee scored in a survey conducted last winter by Morning Consult, or the 36% he had in a YouGov survey in March. Could UNH be an outlier? It's possible. But our political analyst Joe Fleming says even if that's the case, McKee should be worried: "Being between 19% and 43% is not good if you’re an incumbent running for reelection." At 19%, McKee would be in the same disastrous range

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