Statewide Poll Shows Pataki with Comfortable Lead [NY Governor]

WROC-TV ^ | 10/23/02 | Associated Press

[BlackRazor]

Statewide Poll Shows Pataki with Comfortable Lead

10/23/2002 5:00 PM (AP)

A statewide poll released today has Governor Pataki leading Democratic challenger H. Carl McCall 44 percent to 25 percent in the gubernatorial race.

The poll from Siena College-New York Report shows Independence Party candidate B. Thomas Golisano at 12 percent.

An October fifth poll from the group had Pataki leading McCall, 43 percent to 26 percent, with Golisano at 11 percent.

The telephone poll of 1,210 registered voters was conducted October 16th and 17th and has a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Other recent polls have also shown Pataki with double-digit leads, but with billionaire Golisano running stronger against the other two.

McCall spokesman Steven Greenberg noted that Pataki was showing up with less than 50 percent support. He said that shows McCall has lots of room to grow among Democrats.

[BlackRazor]

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[NYS_Eric]

About as unenthusiastic as I've *ever* been to vote for a Republican, but I did manage to hold my nose long enough to vote by absentee ballot for Pataki yesterday. Did it on Row "D" however, so the Conservative party would get the credit for the vote.

Bring back the Pataki of 1995. There was someone actually worth voting for.

[ambrose]

The "Conservative Party" may as well close its doors if it is using its line to nominate candidates like Pataki...

[NYS_Eric]

No argument there, my friend. My rather liberal congressman, Mike McNulty (D), even got their endorsement. Crazy!

[KQQL]

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[Torie]

McNulty is anti abortion/pro life. That might explain it.

[NYS_Eric]

McNulty is anti abortion/pro life. That might explain it.

While he did vote to ban partial birth abortion and did vote to bar RU-486 because of safety concerns, I'm not aware of any other pro-life votes he's made. His ACU ratings were 8 and 17 respectively for the last 2 years. His ADA ratings were 90 and 55 in those same years.

[Coop]

There still seems to be a rather large number of undecideds in this race.

[lavrenti]

You should read Fred Dicker's column in The NY Post today. Continues his line about McCall finishing third and Pataki losing tons of upstate votes to Golisano.

I don't see it like Dicker, based on what I know the unions are planning for McCall. I think Pataki is in big trouble if there is a concerted get-out campaign for McCall in NYC, because I cannot see Golisano getting that much upstate if McCall still has a chance of a large turnout in NYC.

Pataki's campaign is typical of the bizzaro world of NY politics. The radio spots trashing McCall's "pro-corporate, anti-environment" votes are a hoot!

[jude24]

I too voted for Pataki as unenthusiastically as any Republican candidate I ever have voted for. But what were my other choices? McCall, a guy I can respect personally but don't agree with politically? I mean, I've got to give McCall credit for pulling himself out of the projects, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna vote for a liberal democrat.

I briefly considered voting for Golisano, but the more I saw of him, the more I realized that I just don't trust him. The Weekly Standard reported that he threatened one of their reporters that printed something about him that he didn't like -- shows no respect for the 1st Amendment. And this whole thing about using lottery funds for state university tuition, while I like the idea (it's worked well in Georgia), now is not the time to put an expensive commitment like that, when the state's looking at a huge deficit.