Mr. Unfavorable

Daily Kos — Gavin Newsom is not very popular in California.

In fact, as time goes on, he gets even more unpopular as a gubernatorial candidate among likely statewide voters.

As Swing State Project reports:

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom doesn’t fare as well in head-to-heads — Whitman edges him out by 1, while he beats the other GOPers by 1 — and that’s reflected in his favorables. He’s the only one of the five gubernatorial candidates who’s in negative favorability territory….”

Wow.

In a room with Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, and Tom Campbell, Gavin Newsom is hated the most.

Back in March, a CBS 5 by SurveyUSA showed that Gavin was viewed as “completely unqualified by 27 percent of voters.”

And in November 2008, a Field Poll revealed that Gavin “had the highest unfavorable rating of all the potential candidates — 41 percent.”

What does this say about Gavin’s future?

It means he’s only going to get more unpopular because the trends lines are pretty clear.

The more voters get to know Gavin, the less they like about him.

It’s time to start calling him Mr. Unfavorable.