A new poll suggests state lawmakers lining up to qualify for re-election this week have some work to do with voters.

A poll of 472 Georgians done Sunday by the online media and polling company InsiderAdvantage showed only 31.4 percent of respondents would vote to re-elect their House member if they were opposed this year and only 26.7 percent would vote to re-elect their senator.

Nearly half of respondents didn't have an opinion on the matter. The rest said they'd vote against their lawmakers.

The poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, was done the day before state lawmakers began signing up to run for re-election. Lawmakers face re-election every two years.

The General Assembly recently completed a contentious legislative session during which they battled about competing tax cut plans that were never approved.

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican who is seeking re-election this year, fared a little better. Nearly 51 percent of the InsiderAdvantage poll respondents gave him a positive rating.

"This is going to be one of those years when incumbents are going to have a rough ride," predicted Matt Towery, a former Republican lawmaker who is CEO of InsiderAdvantage. "I am not predicting a huge crash for the Republican Party or a huge crash for the incumbents. But there is a lot of unrest out there."

"I think in general, the electorate in Georgia is going to be much more up for grabs than people think," he added. "I think they're angry. They are angry about their financial situation; they've been hit by a drought, by the bad economy; they've been hit by a war they may support but they are getting tired of."

The one person who came out with strong numbers in the poll by InsiderAdvantage was Gov. Sonny Perdue. The governor was on a trade mission to China when the House and Senate battled to the end of the 2008 session.

Perdue, who opposed the tax cut plans of both chambers, had an overall approval rating of 63 percent in the poll. Perdue is in the second year of his second term as governor and can't run for re-election.

Perdue remains particularly strong among his Republican Party base. More than 83 percent of Republicans polled said they approve of his performance. About 52 percent of Democrats and Independents gave him positive marks.

"They only person who has managed to stay above the fray is Sonny Perdue," Towery said. "He is just floating around like the Goodyear blimp, at 8,000 feet. He's perceived as this calm, reasonable leader."