Even with grumbles about an overzealous response to Hurricane Irene—and some disappointment that it was not a more serious storm to justify said response—the new Quinnipiac poll out this morning finds that 54 percent of New Yorkers approve of the job Mayor Michael Bloomberg is doing. That is the highest percentage since the Read More
Politico has the scoop on a new internal poll out from the Kathy Hochul campaign which shows the Erie County Democrat in a dead heat for a race in an open Congressional seat against Republican Jane Corwin.
According to the poll, by Global Strategy Group, Corwin has 31 percent of the vote while Hochul Read More
Quinnipiac University is out with a poll this morning that contains bad news for local real estate tycoon turned reality TV star Donald Trump: a clear majority of voters say that they “would never” vote for him.
Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed fall into that category, while only 9 percent say thay they Read More
Chris Christie has been clear: He is not running for president.
But this is bad news for Republicans because a new poll out by Fairleigh Dickinson says that the New Jersey governor has a good shot at beating Barack Obama.
The poll puts the president over Christie by just 6 points, even though he Read More
A poll out today by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that 56% of Americans back Long Island Congressman’s Peter King’s hearings into radicalization among American Muslims.
But more than 7 in 10 say that they want the hearings to focus on extremisms from other religious groups as well.
“I think Americans are balancing their Read More
The latest Siena poll gives Gov. Andrew Cuomo his highest favorability rating yet, with 77% of respondants approving of the job the governor is doing. Plus, despite some initial grumbling, nearly 3/4ths of New Yorkers say that they approved of Cuomo’s budget.
“The honeymoon continues,” said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.
“After six weeks in office, Read More
Rep. Anthony Weiner, who has become one of the leading national voices defends the Affordable Care Act, is taking the fight to the streets of Queens this morning, where he will highlight a report that will reveal the cost of the Republican efforts to repeal the bill.
If the health care bill is repealed, as Read More
When Wired hit the iPad this summer, the initial sales numbers seemed too good to be true. Editor Chris Anderson announced on Twitter that the iPad edition of the magazine was on pace to outsell the magazine on the newsstand in print and it did. But those days didn’t last.
John Koblin reports for Read More
Something rare out of Condé Nast this morning: A press release extolling lukewarm circulation numbers from the first half of the year. Factoring in numbers from the Wired, Vanity Fair and GQ iPad apps, single copy sales are down 12.4 percent across the company’s 18 titles. Paid subscriptions are up 4 percent. (More circ numbers Read More
This morning Keith Kelly drilled down into Audit Bureau of Circulation numbers for the celebrity weeklies from the first half of the year. People is still the country’s widest-circulating weekly by a nose (32,000 copies), and In Touch has been making serious gains on second-place Us Weekly. The title was regularly moving well over Read More
