| No, we're not having reruns of "classic The Albany Project." This is new.
The newest Quinnipiac poll out today shows Senator Kirsten Gillibrand with another record high: approval at 54%, disapproval at 20%. This is a six point rise in approval and a one point drop in disapproval since last month, drawing Qpac more or less even with the numbers coming out of Siena a couple weeks ago. In comparison, Chuck Schumer gets 60% approval and 26% disapproval in the same poll, an identical point spread.
Meanwhile, there's still the question of who the Republicans will put up against Gillibrand in next year's election, when she runs for her first full six-year term as Senator. And after Gillibrand won 56 of New York's 62 counties before her recent rise, and without the boon of running in a presidential election year...
Does anyone else here remember Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? The scene near the end, in the temple, when the bad guys are standing around deciding which of their nameless expendable underlings they're going to order to walk into the giant whirling blade of decapitation?
Yeah, I'm getting that image right now. |
