Not just for Marie, but also for Joachim.
If you recall from June of last year, Jyllands-Posten published the results of a poll from Rambøll taken for Henrik's birthday.
This was a real poll from a real newspaper (in other words, not a tabloid), which is hardly the same as some
poll on the Hello website with the sugarboarders voting every 10 minutes.
Marie scored a lowly 36.6% and Joachim had a huge drop: from 84.6% in 2004 to 44.6% in June 2009.
Of all the royal family, Prince Joachim’s approval rating dropped most, going from 84.6 percent in 2004 to only 44.6 percent today. He was divorced from the popular Princess Alexandra - now the Countess of Frederiksborg - in 2006.
Joachim married for a second time last year, but his new wife, Princess Marie, has apparently not proved herself to the public yet, scoring only 36.6 percent.
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http://www.cphpost.dk/new...6-royal-ratings-drop.htmlThe same firm took a poll in March of this year and the results were published in Jyllands-Posten in April. You can read more about it here.
http://trondni.blogspot.c...roval-ratings-mostly.htmlJoachim has dropped from 44.6% to 35.6% (with 26.6% disapproving) and Marie has dropped from 36.6% to 30.6% (with 23.5% disapproving).
These are dreadful, dreadful numbers, but I'm sure that the sugary bonbon people will find a way to spin these numbers. (Go ahead, spin away! You might be able to spin the results of one poll, but two polls taken months apart?)
Possible spin from the sugary bonbons:
Marie is unpopular because Joachim is unpopular.
If that's true, then why are her poll numbers worse than his? He does have slightly worse disapproval numbers, but his approval ratings are still 5 points higher.
It's as though Marie is dragging Joachim down in her suckage. He's dropped 49 points since 2004! (By comparison, Henrik has dropped 17 points since 2004.) That's a pretty dramatic plunge and there can be no
ambiguity about that.
The DRF as a whole just isn't as popular as it used to be (the approval ratings have dropped since 2004 and I don't see how the numbers can ever reach those heights again) but dropping 49 points is serious business! Marie has already dropped 6 points in less than a year. These two are on a downward trajectory to the center of the earth.
Another possible spin from the sugary bonbons:
Danes just don't know enough about Marie.
Now this is completely ludicrous because she has been very well exposed from the start and she's had a documentary and lots of interviews. I'm not just talking about post-marriage interviews, but let's not forget the endless pre-engagement interviews that Marie eagerly conducted with the tabloids. Let's not forget the many, many times Marie posed directly for the cameras, the times she posed with reporters, that special time she signed her autograph for Ekstra Bladet, and that very, very special time she posed for her own Starmakers photo shoot for EB in her Geneva apartment building. (Remember the Geneva flat that her daddy bought for her birthday, as she herself told BB.)
(For those of you who think Marie married Joachim for the man and not the title, then why was she parading herself in front of the cameras and conducting interviews with tabloids more than a year before the
official engagement? She told BB that she loved Joachim very much, but that she hadn't told him yet. Why did she pose with a couple of tabloid reporters and sign her autograph for EB if she wasn't interested in the title?)
She told us a lot about herself, and how generous for her to do that long before an official engagement! She's been overexposed from the start and that was her own doing, thanks to her gigantic blabbermouth and
love of posing directly for the cameras.
The first poll was taken in June 2009, right after Marie had her baby and wedding, and there were all kinds of sugary stories in the media. Still, her approval rating was only 36.6%
So despite all of the sugary stories from the media, Team Joachim Marie just isn't very popular with the public. I wouldn't call 35.6% and 30.6% a blazing success.
After that first poll was released last June, the court must have worked to come up with a strategery (yes, the Saturday Night Live word) to improve Joachim and Marie's abysmal poll numbers. That would explain the way the court has been besieging the Danish public with more and more official pics!
Now the unpopular couple has been doing lots of fluffy interviews, but that first poll was taken in June 2009, after the baby and the wedding. You'd think that all of that sugary wedding and baby coverage would result in good approval ratings. If they couldn't score good approval ratings at that time, then what makes them think those numbers could improve? In fact, the numbers have gone down from June 2009 to March 2010 and their negatives have increased even though there were all of those sugary stories. The two are approaching the depths of Henrik's poll numbers.
Maybe Joachim is happy that he is finally more popular than his wife. When he was married to Alexandra, she was always outscoring him. But can he really be happy that he and Marie have such miserable poll
numbers? I can believe that Dick Cheney didn't give a sh*t about his approval ratings while VP, but I don't think Joachim is the same way. Why else would he be doing so many official pics and fluffy interviews
with Marie? It's because he does care about his public image!
