Poll shows Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s approval rating improves nine months after blackface scandal

Gov. Ralph Northam’s approval rating has inched up and disapproval has eased sharply since February, when fellow Democrats in Virginia and across the country demanded his ouster over a blackface scandal, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll. …

Just under half of Virginians like the job Northam is doing as governor, with 47 percent approving and 29 percent disapproving. Those are better marks than the 43 percent-44 percent approval-disapproval split he received in February, after a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced. CONT.

Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider & Emily Guskin, Washington Post