McCain On Rise In NY
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- September
- 15
John McCain is down only five percentage points to Barack Obama in New York, as Obama’s lead in the heavily blue state continues to decline, a Siena College poll today shows.
Seven weeks until Election Day, Obama leads McCain 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters
Obama’s lead in New York has steadily declined, according to Siena. He led by eight percentage points in August, 13 points in July and 18 points in June, when he led 51-33 percent.
On six questions concerning current events – the economy, Iraq, terrorism, health care, America’s position in the world, and education – likely voters believe Obama will do a better job on four of them.
Yet on the six attributes voters often look at in choosing a candidate – compassion, patriotism, experience, intelligence, integrity, and leadership – New York’s voters give the edge to McCain on four of them.
“Although New York has long been regarded as a ‘safe’ state for the Democrats in presidential politics, likely voters in the Empire State are currently only giving Senator Obama a five-point cushion,” said Steven Greenberg, spokesman for Siena. “The conventions are over. The running mates are set. And as voters begin to focus on the race, New York’s overwhelming Democratic enrollment advantage is not reflected in how voters tell Siena they plan to vote.”
The poll also brought other good news for Republicans in New York, who are trying to retain control of the state Senate. New York likely voters are evenly divided 44 percent to 44 percent on whether they want to see Republicans continue to control the state Senate or have the Democrats take control for the first time since 1965.
Gov. David Paterson’s approval rating remains strong at 59 percent, but the poll found hin losing in 2010 to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg by five percentage points and beats former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani by 10 points.
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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. 
