Worst Score Ever for State Legislature
New York State voters disapprove 75 - 15 percent of the job the State Legislature is doing, matching the 76 - 16 percent disapproval from a June 23 Quinnipiac University poll for the worst overall net score ever. Voters say 55 - 31 percent that their local state senator should be voted out of office as part of an overall house-cleaning in Albany, the highest anti-incumbent score ever.
Poll after the jump
Their State Assembly member should go, too, voters say 53 - 33 percent, the highest anti- incumbent score for Assembly members as well.
"State legislators ought to be nervous. More than half of voters say that, to clean house in Albany, they'd even vote against their own senator or Assembly member. That sort of mass movement never has happened - but the Legislature overall gets terrible marks, and New Yorkers, overall, are unhappy with the state of the state," [director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Maurice] Carroll said.
Luckily this year we have several quality challengers in both primaries general election matchups that can tap into this voter discontent. Additionally, we have a governor's race that will increase turnout and make the electorate less susceptible to special interests and party machinery. This year could very well be the perfect storm that sweeps the worst of the worst, Pedro and the Rev, out in the primary and several members of the GOP dead weight caucus in November. But we in the reform community will still have to do everything right, so I urge every reader here to get involved in a race that matters to you- even if it's only a few hours a week knocking on doors, in makes a huge difference.
