The governor, a Democrat, has a 62 percent approval rating among voters, with a quarter of the electorate disapproving, according to Quinnipiac University, which conducted the poll last week. The poll suggested that if the election were being held today, Mr. Cuomo would easily defeat Rob Astorino, the recently re-elected Westchester County executive who has been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for governor; voters preferred Mr. Cuomo 56 percent to Mr. Astorino’s 25 percent. More than 80 percent of those polled, however, said they did not know enough about Mr. Astorino to form an opinion about him.
The governor’s approval rating, which had sagged to near 50 percent in a June Quinnipiac poll, rebounded to 62 percent, something pollsters ascribed to a quiet fall after a generally lackluster lawmaking year in Albany. Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed said he should be re-elected.
“At midyear, Cuomo was coming off a generally unsatisfying legislative session,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the university’s polling institute, adding that “his job approval as he heads into the election year is healthy, and a big majority of New Yorkers think he deserves a second term.”
The poll, conducted last Wednesday through Sunday, surveyed 1,337 New York State voters; it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
A poll by Siena College released last week showed Mr. Cuomo with huge leads against potential Republican candidates. The governor has been repeatedly mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, despite his denials of such ambitions.
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