As Justin Sink reports in The Hill, President Obama’s job approval rating has been dropping significantly in the heavily Democratic states of New York and California.

Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be of much interest in a campaign year, since Democratic statewide candidates would be likely to win in any case, and incumbent Governors Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown (interestingly, both sons of former governors) are polling well ahead of their Republican opponents, though only at slightly more than 50 percent themselves.

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