There Goes That Popularity

Survey USA does a superb set of monthly tracking polls for the approval of Governors and Senators in their home state (they also do a monthly tracking poll of President Bush's approval in each state). Anyway, I noticed something interesting in this month's poll. For months South Dakota's Republican Governor Mike Rounds has been one of the most popular governors in the nation with his approval being consistently over 70%. Then this month Governor Rounds signed a new South Dakota law banning all abortion including in cases of rape and incest. It seems the people of South Dakota didn't like this extremist law: