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Posted on 02/17/2010 11:56:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in the last 4-1/2 years - just one of the elected officials to feel the wrath of New York voters.
Voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, support Bloomberg's plan to balance the budget by freezing city workers' wages, but are mixed on his push to trim city services instead of raising taxes.
Just 43% of voters would raise taxes to balance the budget, down 10 points from a year ago.
About 45% would cut services, up 6 points from a year earlier. While 63% of voters would support a wage freeze, 63% are also opposed to laying off city workers.
Bloomberg's proposed budget eliminates raises for most city workers, and lays off 834 of them.
Just 61% of New Yorkers surveyed approve of the job Bloomberg is doing, down from 67% in September and 75% in October 2008.
The last time he was at that level was July 2005, when he had a 60% approval rating heading into his first re-election bid.
Bloomberg won re-election last fall by a 4.4-point margin, and said he was hurt by the same anti-incumbent sentiment that has tossed pols from office around the country.
Quinnipiac pollster Mickey Carroll said the voter dissatisfaction is real - and Bloomberg has suffered from it.
"For Mayor Mike, 60 is the new 70," Carroll said. "The man who cruised through his second term with 70 percent approval ratings should be happy if he can stay above 60 percent in his third term."
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Third term is a bummer. Ask Mayor Koch.
I don’t understand why this guy ever ran as a Republican.
oh....so THAT’S why he flip-flopped on the KSM trial...
The Chief of Police was the first who said he couldn’t guarantee peoples safety - Bloomberg trailed behind. Blooomberg is more into getting his greenie stars for banning transfat, salt etc.
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Didn’t New Yorkers just Re-elect this Billionaire Idiot ? Sorry, i just haven’t lived long enough yet to understand Northerners.
Because it was easier to do so. He only had to use his money to blitz a legitimate Republican, Herman Badillo, in the ‘01 GOP primary. To have run in the Democrat primary would’ve meant navigating the classic minefield of racial group politics, and he didn’t want to do it. The reason the Democrats haven’t won the Mayorship since 1989 (and even at that, by an underwhelming margin) is because there is usually a 3-way squabble between Blacks, Hispanics, and liberal White Jews. When one group outdoes another to get the nomination, they get “even” by endorsing the Republican. When a White Jew, Mark Green, won the 2001 nomination on the Dem side over a Hispanic, Freddy Ferrer, the Hispanics supported Bloomberg (who, ironically, is also a White Jewish liberal - because he wasn’t Mark Green !).
Yup, he just barely defeated a Black Dem opponent, Bill Thompson last November.
Both Badillo and Bloomberg were democrats running as Rs. Badillo was just the more sane and moderate one.
Badillo was a legit convert, though. He switched during Rudy’s reign.
Rudy....What a great conservative that guy was.
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