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Remember when all anyone could talk about was congestion pricing? Well, now that the city is officially in holiday gridlock mode, Quinnipiac University released a new poll showing growing opposition to congestion pricing, with 61% of New Yorkers against the plan. Back in July, 52% of voters were against congestion pricing, and then that grew to 57% in August. Most notably, the number of Manhattan voters opposing congestion pricing has risen 11%, from 36%...

As Mayor Bloomberg continues his full court press to bring congestion pricing in some shape or form to the city, the folks at Quinnipiac University conducted a poll to see what New Yorkers think. And even though 90% of the respondents think that city traffic is a pain, 56% oppose congestion pricing (37% support it). But what's interesting is how the boroughs differ. From Quinnipiac:

Manhattan voters support congestion pricing 62 - 29 percent. Voters in other boroughs are opposed to the proposal:

Continue reading "Another Way Manhattan Differs From the Rest of NYC"

- Edwards tops Romney 59 - 21 percent. Quinnipiac's Polling Institute director Maurice Carroll noted that New York is "still a blue state" and wonders if Clinton and Giuliani will bother coming for the primary in February, since they'll do well. And if you're wondering about former Vice President Al Gore and Law & Order actor (and former Senator) Fred Thompson's chances, Caroll said Gore is tied with Obama while Thompson "is doing almost as well as multi-millionaire Mitt Romney."

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that New Yorkers still really like Mayor Bloomberg. While his approval rating slipped 2 points since the beginning of the year (from 75 to 73), Bloomberg can claim that the citizens of New York like him as a mayor more than they like Rudy Giuliani's reign as Hizzoner. Forty-six percent liked Bloomberg more than Giuliani; 34% felt they were the same, while 16% thought Giuliani was better. All the boroughs thought Bloomberg was better, although in Staten Island, 36% thought they were the same (35% liked Bloomberg better, 25% liked Giuliani better).

Not as fun as sabermetrics, but still fun: Quinnipiac University conducted a poll asking New Yorkers about their NYC basebal loyalties. Not surprisingly, the Yankees are favored over the Mets - 46% of New Yorkers would want the Yanks to win a Subway World Series, whereas only 37% would want the Mets to win (we assume the remaining 17% are people who think a subway series involves actual subway cars or who don't want a ticker tape parade) - but what is surprising is that gap has narrowed since 1998, when the Yankees were preferred by 32%. Quinnipiac also asked questions like "Do you consider yourself a Yankees/Mets fan?" and also broke down the findings by borough - Yankees fans take the majority in all boroughs except Queens. The NY Sun's Tim Marchman looks at how many fans follow their teams through TV coverage - and how the Yankees' announcer Michael Kay stinks.

Ah, Quinnipiac University, how we love your polling department. All through the year you give us great political polls, and come winter, you turn to more off-beat questions. For instance: do New Yorkers love New York City, just like it, sort of want to hold hands with it, or totally think it has the cooties:

The most brilliant thing about yesterday's photo op, besides the Brooklyn Bridge of course, is that it was staged on Veteran's Day, a school holiday. That's how you get throngs of kids to wave little NYC 2012 flags. And how does Bob Beamon run with torch-like the bid in his hand? Doesn't it get all crumply with the running and stuff?

Yesterday, the Mayor was talking campaign finance and how new regulations, to allow opponents spend more, are bogus. His opponents are saying "Cry me a river," given that Mayor Bloomberg spent $75 million of his own money for his 2001 run. And Gothamist on the Mayor's approval ratings.

Nobody is shocked, but New Yorkers seem gleeful at the news of Mayor Bloomberg's low approval rating, a cool 32 percent. To give some idea of how low that is, Giuliani, certainly a love-him-or-hate-him figure pre-September 11, never went below 27 percent approval.