Democrat Doug Jones' approval rating is within 4 percentage points of Alabama's Senior Senator, Republican Richard Shelby, according to the quarterly Morning Consult poll.

Shelby's approval rating is 51 percent with a disapproval rating of 30 percent and 20 percent who had no opinion. Forty-seven percent of those polled approved of the job Jones is doing, compared to 25 percent who disapproved and 28 who had no opinion.

The difference between approval and disapproval is actually higher for Jones - 22 points - than Shelby at 21 points.

Jones is also more popular than Republican Senator Luther Strange, who ended his 11-month tenure with a 42 percent approval rating and 34 percent disapproval rating, according to Morning Consult.

At 72 percent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, has the highest approval rating of any Senator.

The results are from online surveys conducted with almost 275,000 registered voters. Alabama's results have a 1 percent margin of error.

Jones became Alabama's first Democrat Senator in decades December 2017 when he upset Republican hopeful Roy Moore. Moore's campaign was dogged by allegations he had sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s.