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Andy's Approval Plummets with Dems

By Paul Chesser on 9.8.10 @ 10:10AM

Believe it or not, the favorability rating of Andy Griffith has dropped too, thanks to his endorsement of Obamacare. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports:

Andy Griffith, star of the Andy Griffith Show, a Manteo resident and noted endorser of Democratic causes and candidates, has seen his approval ratings plummet, according to a poll published Tuesday by Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling.

The Democratic pollster found that Griffith's approval rating has fallen 25 points since 2008. Griffith has been a closer for Democrats, an unimpeachable saintly figure who fills his rare political spots with folksy charm and obvious references to his role as a small-town North Carolina sheriff.

In July he cut an ad for the federal government promising good things to come from the Democratic-backed health care law. And as the poll suggests, the ad may have tainted the Griffith brand and taken from Democrats an important campaign weapon.

Fortunately for him this is not an election year in Mayberry.

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Booger| 9.8.10 @ 10:22AM

I hear the death panel coming for Aunt Bea.

Derek Leaberry| 9.8.10 @ 10:28AM

The Andy Griffith Show has been proved one big lie. Griffith is a big liberal who most recently supported State Senator Soles(Democrat?Pervert-NC). Ronnie Howard(aka Opie) is another big liberal. Other actors on The Andy Griffith Show have been reported to live lifestyles that are very unMayberrylike.

Missy| 9.8.10 @ 9:25PM

They're actors, what do you expect?

ArArAr| 9.8.10 @ 11:14AM

"Well Goll-ee Andy, that just sounds swell" If you don't care about unsustanability, or all the other rotten things it will do to us. November is just around the corner now.

Grzmlyk| 9.8.10 @ 11:32AM

Sad. I thought the Andy Griffith Show, in its prime, was one of the best shows ever put on TV. My recollection is that it was a celebration of small-town, rather conservative values, and Griffith was excellent as a very human, but generally wise, leavener of the poor judgment of Mayberry's various denizens.

But Griffith IS an actor. If anyone's ever seen "A
Face in the Crowd" - which OUGHT to be a cautionary tale about people like Barack Obama - it's obvious that Griffith is well acquainted with some of the darker aspects of human nature.

And his Matlock made remains one of the most obnoxious main characters ever to succeed in prime time TV. Unlike Buddy Ebsen, who brought to the geriatric detective genre a gentility and folksy charm, Griffith's Matlock was the personification of acid reflux - a dyspeptic and unpleasant sensation you just want to go away.

And now I wish Griffith would just go away.

Nick| 9.8.10 @ 4:22PM

Grzmlyk,

Good point.
I liked the show, but Ben Matlock is not someone I would want as a neighbor, that's for sure.

Do you think Murphy Brown could have been Ben's obnoxious love child?

kingsmill| 9.8.10 @ 1:06PM

Andy has morphed into Lonesome Rhodes. The shysters Lonesome shilled for can't hold a candle to the mob Andy now represents.

ncatty| 9.8.10 @ 2:48PM

You wouldn't believe how Andy Griffith is worshipped here in NC.

LoneStar| 12.17.10 @ 4:32PM

I never studied up on andy, or his lifestyle but i always liked him. In the 50's and 60's democrats were conservatives, but today they have completly lost there way. The republican party today is not much better maybe 50'% are conservative. Our entire country is off track and ole uncle andy is stabbing us in the back at a time we need him most. YES im a redneck bible believing type a guy. God bless and pray for andy.