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New York Toplines - November 14, 2007

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New York

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

November 14, 2007

1* How do you rate the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

15% Excellent

15% Good

15% Fair

53% Poor

3% Not sure

2* How do you rate the way that Eliot Spitzer is performing his role as Governor? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

8% Excellent

21% Good

32% Fair

36% Poor

3% Not sure

3* 2008 Presidential General Election Match-Ups

New York: 2008 Presidential Election Match-Ups

Clinton

42%

Clinton

45%

Clinton

46%

Clinton

42%

Giuliani

33%

Thompson

22%

Romney

22%

McCain

27%

Bloomberg

17%

Bloomberg

22%

Bloomberg

22%

Bloomberg

20%

Not sure

9%

Not sure

10%

Not sure

10%

Not sure

11%

4* Favorables for Candidates

Clinton

Giuliani

Thompson

Romney

McCain

Bloomberg

Very Favorable

31%

23%

9%

12%

12%

19%

Somewhat Favorable

27%

31%

26%

24%

36%

36%

Somewhat Unfavorable

13%

20%

31%

27%

27%

20%

Very Unfavorable

26%

23%

20%

24%

17%

16%

Not sure

4%

3%

13%

14%

9%

9%

5* If a New York police officer pulls someone over for a traffic violation, should the officer automatically check to see if that person is in the country legally?

58% Yes

29% No

13% Not sure

6* If an officer finds that a person pulled over for a traffic violation is an illegal immigrant, should that person be deported?

46% Yes

31% No

23% Not sure

7* If police officers are required to check the immigration status of every person they pull over, does that create the temptation to discriminate against people based on their name, their accent and the color of their skin?

45% Yes

46% No

9% Not sure

8* Should undocumented immigrants be allowed to get drivers’ licenses?

20% Yes

70% No

10% Not sure

9* Would road safety improve if all immigrants had drivers licenses and insurance?

34% Yes

49% No

17% Not sure

10* If undocumented immigrants are allowed to obtain drivers licenses, would it help terrorists, hurt terrorists or have no impact on terrorists?

45% Help terrorists

9% Hurt terrorists

39% Have no impact on terrorists

6% Not sure

11* Mayor Bloomberg says that he is not running for president, do you believe him?

35% Yes

29% No

36% Not sure


12* Should Mayor Bloomberg enter the Presidential race?

25% Yes

51% No

24% Not sure

13* If Mayor Bloomberg runs for president as an independent, how likely is it that he would win the election in 2008?

5% Very likely

14% Somewhat likely

50% Not very likely

24% Not at all likely

7% Not sure

14* Does Rudy Giuliani’s relationship with Bernie Kerik reflect on Giuliani’s judgment?

37% Yes

37% No

25% Not sure

15* Does Rudy Giuliani’s announcement that he rooted for the Red Sox in the World Series make you more likely or less likely to vote for him?

10% More likely

19% Less likely

69% No impact

2% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence