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Mayor Bloomberg's popularity rating has dropped to its lowest level in five years, in part because of his ardent defense of a proposed mosque several blocks from Ground Zero, according to a poll released yesterday. New Yorkers' approval of their third-term mayor (pictured) dipped to 49 percent, down from 56 percent in April, as 53 percent of those surveyed said they disagree with his position on the mosque, according to the Marist survey. "The mosque is not doing him any good . . . He's certainly on the wrong side of public opinion on that in the city," said pollster...

A new poll finds that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s approval rating has dipped below 50 percent for the first time in five years. The Marist College survey was released Tuesday. It found that 49 percent of registered New York City voters think the billionaire mayor is doing either an excellent or good job. The poll said 33 percent rate him as doing a fair job, 16 percent said poor and 2 percent weren’t sure. The last time Marist asked this question, in April, 56 percent of voters rated him excellent or good.

It was approximately 9 years ago, on September 11, 2001, that two commercial airliners were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center buildings in New York City purportedly by radical Islamic terrorists. Now a group of Muslims have designs in place to build a new mosque called The Cordoba House just two blocks away from the site of the 9/11 attack. If the Cordoba Initiative is successful, then the mosque will be built, but not without opposition. Many citizens of NYC, and the United States, feel the Cordoba House is an offensive idea, especially to the families...