Analysis: SurveyUSA interviewed by telephone 600 adults age 18+ in each of the 50 United States. Questionnaires in all 50 states were identical. Only the names of the office holders changed from state to state.

(Emphasis mine.) Good catch, Chip -- and that'll teach me to skip over the rest of the thread before responding to a previous comment.

No, this set of numbers reflects their NATIONAL approval, not their local approval.

On closer reading, you're right. However, your "state-by-state" at the top of the post suggests otherwise.

McGehee, I’d be very interested in any Senator that didn’t make the bottom 100.

LOL. Can I plead Freudian slip?

HOW POPULAR IS YOUR SENATOR?....Via James Joyner, SurveyUSA has a list of all U.S. senators ranked by current popularity in their home states. The full list is here. I thought it would be fun to show just the senators who...

From the SC results page:

"Analysis: SurveyUSA interviewed by telephone 600 adults age 18+ in each of the 50 United States. Questionnaires in all 50 states were identical. Only the names of the office holders changed from state to state. The exact question wording as read to the respondent follows. Margin of sampling error is incorporated into the results below, and is calculated question by question (and so may vary from one Senator to the next, based on the Senator's approval rating). Field dates and full statement of methodology at left. The sponsoring media client for each statewide poll appears at left. News stories that cite these results must credit SurveyUSA of Verona, NJ and the sponsoring media organization from each state."

Looks like local approval ratings to me.

I'm not sure what to make of the fact that 8/10 "most popular" senators are Democrats and 8/10 "least popular" are Republicans. That certainly does not reflect the preferences expressed at the election polls.

Apples and oranges, James. The approval numbers are from each Senator's own state, remember -- a state in which that Senator won election and, unless a freshman, re-election.

James over at Outside the Beltway has linked to a Survey USA survey ranking the popularity of the Senators. [...]

James Joyner links to a new survey by Survey USA that shows the approval ratings for all US Senators. Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions are right in the middle of the pack, with approval ratings of 58 and 57 percent respectively.