Support – Opposition:
79-17 percent support capping property taxes.
56-38 percent support same-sex marriage.
51 percent support independent commission drawing legislative lines
29 percent support a commission with input from legislators drawing lines.
12 percent support lawmakers drawing legislative lines.
55-40 percent support lawmakers disclosing their law firm clients. (That’s up Read More
If you ask Doug Schoen, today’s Quinnpiac poll confirms what he’s been saying all along: New York City residents want Wal-Mart.
“A clear majority want Wal-Mart and a very large percentage will shop at Wal-Mart,” Schoen told me in an interview this afternoon. “Our polling and Quinnipiac’s polling show that.”
Schoen’s poll from Read More
Quinnipiac is out with a hodgepodge of numbers on NYC issues:
Wal-Mart
57-36 percent say electeds should allow a Wal-Mart to open here.
68-29 percent say they’d shop there once open.
Last In, First Out
78-16 percent say teacher layoffs should be NOT done based on seniority [corrected].
63-32 percent of union households Read More
“What I think” said Quinnipiac pollster Mickey Carroll. “It’s the third term.”
That’s how Carroll explained today’s Q poll results showing Bloomberg hitting an 8-year low with voters, with a 51-39 percent job approval rating. ”Manhattan is the one place where he’s a plus, He’s a minus everywhere else,” said Carroll.
While Bloomberg’s push for Read More
“New York City voters disapprove 51 – 39 percent of the job Mayor Michael Bloomberg is doing, his lowest score since a 51 – 37 percent disapproval November 23, 2003″ says Quinnipiac, in
Michael Bloomberg will probably dislike the poll that’s coming out tomorrow, not because of what the respondents say, but because of what they were asked.
Among the topics Quinnipiac has been polling about, according to their media advisory, is Bloomberg’s “free time” which isn’t an issue that has any upside for him.
Quinnipiac pollster Mickey Carroll was in City Hall this morning, saying that despite a measurable dip in his numbers in the Quinnipiac poll this morning, Michael Bloomberg has a lot to be happy about.
Quinnipiac pollster Mickey Carroll was in City Hall this morning, saying that despite a measurable dip in his numbers in the Quinnipiac poll this morning, Michael Bloomberg has a lot to be happy about.
A Quinnipiac poll (which will be posted here shortly) of 1,047 New York State voters shows that 63 percent of them don’t know enough about Kirsten Gillibrand to have an opinion of her.
Of the remaining New Yorkers, Gillibrand has a favorability-unfavorability rating of 25-10 percent.
Registered Republicans support Gillibrand’s selection Read More
Quinnipiac is out with a poll showing Michael Bloomberg’s approval rating is down nine percentage points, but in hypothetical match-ups against his two likely Democratic mayoral rivals, he would win re-election.
The results are very similar to a Marist poll released last week, and both reflect some of the ambivalence New Yorkers Read More
