Zogby Poll: NYers Proud of State, Ashamed Of Leaders
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A Zogby poll coming out today shows that 62 percent of New Yorkers are proud of their state, but only 26 percent are proud of their state political leaders.
The poll also found that in a heads-up matchup for governor in 2010, Democratic Gov. David Paterson would beat former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, 49 percent to 34 percent.
Yet Paterson would lose to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, if he ran on the Republican line, by a tally of 44 percent to 36 percent.
Other tidbits from the telephone poll of 770 likely New York voters, which was conducted April 4-6, and had a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
—Paterson has a favorability rating of 47 percent, yet 39 percent had no opinion.—56 percent said New York is headed in the wrong direction.—67 percent said Hillary Clinton should continue to fight for the presidential nomination.—51 percent said Clinton would serve New York best in the Senate, rather than the White House.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
