Yeah, there should be caveats aplenty with reading this poll and one would think that being caught red handed sending racist emails as well as ones depicting, ahem, bestiality, would severely effect the popularity of a major party candidate for governor of the state of New York. Looks like, at least as far as this Quinnipiac poll, you'd be wrong.
Among likely voters, the Democrat Cuomo has a paltry 49% to 43% lead over Paladino, the blowhard Buffalo businessman who won a shocking and decisive victory last week in the GOP primary, the Quinnipiac University poll finds.
Quinnipiac's findings are in stark contrast to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday that showed Cuomo with a more robust 54% to 38% lead.
Cuomo "might be a victim of his own excess," Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said. "Politicians and polls have depicted him so relentlessly as a sure thing that he might be a victim of the 'throw the bums out' attitude that hits incumbents in this angry year."
Lots to digest and lots to take with a mighty hefty grain of salt in this poll, but maybe it's time to also start hitting Carl on his crazy policy ideas as well. Yeah, he's a racist, a kook, a sexist and probably an anti-Semite - and plenty of people still don't know that. They should definitely be educated to that fact. But, it's also plainly obvious that it's time to start making the case against Carl on substance as well, no matter how you read this poll. |
