Gov. Andrew Cuomo's job performance ranking has dropped to its lowest point in about three years, according to today's Siena Research Institute poll.
More than half of voters polled, 56 percent, gave the governor a negative ranking, while only 44 percent gave him a positive rating. While this continues a decline from last month, the polling shows that he would still crush potential Republican opponents, Rob Astorino, Ed Cox and Carl Paladino.
“While Cuomo maintains his nearly two-to-one favorability rating, voters are less enthralled with the job he is doing as governor,” Siena pollster Steve Greenberg said in a statement. “More than twice as many voters think he’s doing a poor job compared to an excellent job."
A complete breakdown of the poll is available below.
He added that the governor is still in a commanding position to defeat state Republican Committee Chairman Ed Cox, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino and 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino. “Against all three, he gets the support of more than 80 percent of Democrats, a strong majority of independents and a little more than one-third of Republicans. And that’s before he spends a dollar from his $30 million campaign war chest," Greenberg said.
Part of the challenge for the Republican opponents, especially Astorino, is that they're not well known around the state, according to the polling.
Voters are basically divided on Astorino across the state, with 12 percent viewing him favorably and 14 percent having a negative perception, but about 75 percent of the people polled had no opinion about him. In the "suburbs" region, where only 69 percent of voters had no opinion about him and he is known best to voters, his favorable rating was up to 18 percent and his negative rating was down to 13 percent, a slightly encouraging nugget for Astorino's gubernatorial aspirations.
The poll was conducted from Nov. 11 to Nov. 14 and interviewed 806 registered voters. There is a margin of error of about 3.5 percent.
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