New (Different) Poll: Cuomo Leads Paladino By 33 Points

A hot-off-the-presses new Siena poll shows Andrew Cuomo leading Carl Paladino in the upcoming gubernatorial race by a whopping 33 points. But wait a minute—yesterday's Quinnipiac poll told us that Paladino was only 6 points behind. This is completely contradictory! Maybe Camus was right: only once we accept that the world is devoid of any fundamental absolutes can we truly be free.

According to today's poll, Cuomo leads Paladino by a 57 to 24 percent margin, with Rick Lazio trailing behind at 8 percent. Quinnipiac's survey only took into account likely voters, as opposed to Siena who polled all registered voters. But despite the latest poll, yesterday's poll was damaging to the public perception of Cuomo, and how he's run his campaign thus far.

The Times declared that his "unstoppable" image suffered a severe blow, while Democrats are now calling for Cuomo to pursue a more aggressive campaign strategy: "Cuomo should engage him directly on the issues and show that Paladino is only an inch deep in his understanding of how to turn government around. They expected Paladino to self-destruct, and he's not going to. He's just going to become more and more of a people's champion," said Michael Benjamin, a retiring Democratic assemblyman from the Bronx.

Even Cuomo sounded frustrated at an event yesterday where Mayor Bloomberg gave him his endorsement: “We’re all angry! O.K. What do you want to do? We can have an anger party, celebrate our anger. Or we can say let’s take that anger, let’s take the energy, let’s focus it and actually do something to correct the problem.”

If anything, yesterday's poll makes Paladino seem like more of a legitimate contender, and it's given him the cojones to step up his game and focus on more public-policy issues. But he won't stop slinging mud: “This game is not played in short pants. We will keep popping smoke and dropping it in his hole until he comes out. The only question is: How much will he be coughing when he emerges?” Paladino ~~attack dog~~ campaign manager Michael Caputo told City Hall Daily.

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By Ben Yakas in News on September 23, 2010 1:18 PM

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WesleySnipesAlot

Wouldn't be accepting that there are no absolutes be an absolute itself?

JacqueMehoff

why would he tell anyone who he voted for? I never heard bloombag tell anyone who he voted for? fukin stupid press.

youngpro

it's 'Siena' not 'Sienna.'

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

What a fucking liar. He endorsed both ferret and Thompson and yet claimed he voted for Bloomberg? Cuomo is sleazy. I am voting for Carl.

John L

Come on Felix!

I expect better from you!

You're going to vote for the guy who emailed BEASTALITY videos?

Now you're looking like a hypocrite.

FelixtheCat Christine Quinns

JOhn, Cuomo literally stole from the dogs. He was one of the main culprit who diverted Helmsley bequest to the dogs to his cronies. He wrote letter to the Judge to ruled against Helmsley's will. yes, those best&iality videos were sickening. Limited choices in this election but Cuomo will be dethroned.

youngpro

it's allllll about the animals with you, huh? so THAT's why you dont vote for cuomo? now we all know. thanks.

and also, you cant 'dethrone someone who isnt in power, asshole. cuomo isnt governor yet.

and start using articles like 'the' when you write, lest you sound like a fucking caveman.

TK

whether you like him or not, you have to admit Paladino is a hell of a lot more entertaining than Lazio

John L

Polls are meaningless now because the American public is too segmented. Unless they do polls over different medias it will only, at best, be a snapshot of a particular group. For example. many young voters don't even have a house phone so if you exclusively do a telephone poll you will undoubtedly miss a large base of younger voters. Or if you do an internet poll you will more than likely miss older voters than may not be internet savvy. So these simple polls can no longer effectively gauge voters anymore.

Plus many of these polls use leading questions that affects the outcome.

If we look back to the poll that everyone was talking about this summer we can see how they can purposely skew the numbers and nobody even talks about it. Let's analyze that poll the everyone always mention with the "68% of Americans Opposing This Mosque". This poll is flawed and not representative of America. The results can be found here http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/08/11/rel11a.pdf

Please take note that not one American between the ages of 18-34 were polled and surely enough the results show that the older the poll groups the more opposed they were. So the question is why leave out a group that would obviously balance out the numbers more, unless your intention is to skew the numbers in one direction. I'm pretty sure that if they did the reverse and included the opinions of 18-34 year olds and left out the 65 and over (who were 79% opposed) the percentages would be totally different.

These polls are nonsense.

Såkandulæredet

Cuomo also lied yesterday and said he voted for Bloomberg... whoops. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/22/poll-paladino-closing-in-on-cuomo/