Posted on 03/02/2006 6:07:00 AM PST by areafiftyone
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton may be the star of the national Democratic Party, but her constituents back home say it's actually her New York colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, who's doing the better job.
According to a poll released Wednesday by Strategic Visions LLC, 59 percent of New Yorkers approved of the job Schumer was doing, with just 30 percent disapproving.
That's better than the allegedly wildly popular Sen. Clinton, whose approval rating was 3 points lower than Schumer's, and whose disapproval rate was 2 points higher.
In another blow to the notion that Hillary Clinton is New York's most popular politician, the Strategic Vision poll found that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani could defeat Clinton in her Senate reelection bid.
In a head-to-head match-up, Giuliani garnered 45 percent of Empire State voters vs Hillary's 41 percent. In another bizarre finding, New Yorkers gave President Bush lower marks for his handling of the economy, which is generally considered to be booming, than for the Iraq war.
Just 23 percent approved of Bush's economic stewardship, with 67 percent giving him a thumbs down. On Iraq, Bush wins 25 percent approval and 64 percent disapproval.
Hillary is a cosmically corrupt, sickeningly opportunistic interloper who wouldn't know how to pronounce Houston Street on a bet.
Do I prefer Chuckie to ThatWoman? Of course.
Do I LIKE Chuckie? Of course not.
Not if her opponent is Rudy.
Exactly. Well said.
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