A recent poll is bearing bad news for Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Milton), as a plurality of respondents said he has been a worse governor than they expected.

[img_assist|nid=94|title=Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Milton)|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=128|height=180]A  recently released 7NEWS/Suffolk University poll showed that 40 percent of respondents, a plurality, said Patrick is a worse governor than they expected. Twenty-nine percent said he has been better governor than they expected and 32 percent was undecided.

The poll also asked respondents which they thought better represent their interests on Beacon Hill: the governor of the legislature. Forty percent of respondents said the legislature does, compared to 20 percent who said the governor does. Twenty-one percent were undecided, while 19 percent said "no one."

The poll has been released in phases over the past week (PolitickerMA.com reported on another part of it here). The poll was conducted between July 31 and Aug. 3 and interviewed 400 respondents. There was a 4.9 percent margin of error on the poll.