As a state government shutdown looms, nobody laboring under the dome in St. Paul is getting particularly high marks from their constituents.

A new SurveyUSA poll conducted for KSTP found that 42 percent of Minnesotans approve of the job Gov. Mark Dayton is doing, while 43 percent disapprove.

While that has Dayton under the 50-percent mark considered to be a safe zone for elected officials, members of the Republican-controlled Legislature fare far worse, with 65 percent of those polled giving the performance of the House and Senate a thumbs-down. Only 23 percent approve of the job the lawmakers are doing.

Asked how state officials should solve Minnesota's massive budget crisis, Minnesotans largely favor the approach taken the GOP. Sixty-two percent said state spending should be decreased -- the heart of the Republicans' plan. Only 8 percent favor increasing state spending.

Of those who would increase spending, two-thirds favor increasing taxes on the state's wealthiest residents, the approach championed by Dayton, but the sample size of those poll respondents is so small to be nearly statistically meaningless.

And if the government's lights go out on July 1, the blame will be portioined out in all directions. Twenty-one percent of those polled said it will be Dayton's part, 20 percent say the blame will belong to GOP legislators and 50 percent said everyone at the Capitol will be equally responsible.

Full poll results can be read here.