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Toplines - New York Governor - January 18, 2010

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New York State Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted January 18, 2010
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

34% Strongly approve
22% Somewhat approve
10% Somewhat disapprove
33% Strongly disapprove
1% Not sure

2* How would you rate the job David Paterson has been doing as Governor… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

10% Strongly approve
33% Somewhat approve
30% Somewhat disapprove
26% Strongly disapprove
1% Not sure

3* 2010 New York Governor’s Race

Rick Lazio (R)

45%

David Paterson (D)

38%

Some other candidate

9%

Not sure

8%

Rick Lazio (R)

35%

Andrew Cuomo (D)

54%

Some other candidate

5%

Not sure

7%

4* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

Candidate for the NY Governor’s Race

Very Favorable

Somewhat Favorable

Somewhat Unfavorable

Very Unfavorable

Not sure

Paterson

13%

31%

28%

25%

3%

Lazio

14%

31%

20%

14%

22%

Cuomo

32%

30%

15%

14%

9%

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