Quoted: “There are lots of governors with approval ratings in the 30s and 40s who aren?t recalled. Just being unpopular isn?t sufficient,” says political science professor Barry C. Burden at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who believes petitioners will meet the signature requirement. “You?ve got to convince the public that this person, who has not even had a year to govern, is doing so poorly ? or that he has deviated from his original course.”