Gun control continues to work against the Governor:
“Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s job approval rating remains high at 56% among voters statewide, but his support has eroded upstate after passage of sweeping new gun laws, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC NY/Marist Poll … “What we’re seeing is largely steady in terms of the overall picture of how New Yorkers are assessing him,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. But there was “a major shift below the radar” as a result of issues including gun control … Mr. Miringoff said …”
Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen. What other good news is coming his way today?
“Today in news from a future that will likely never happen, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leads Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a hypothetical 2016 presidential matchup in the Garden State, a Quinnipiac University poll found. Christie, who walked back yesterday the claim that he agrees with Cuomo on “98 percent” of the issues, would top Cuomo in New Jersey in a potential 2016 presidential race, 54 to 36 percent …”
Like father, like son. His old man made the same mistake jumping on the gun control bandwagon in the 80s referring to gunnies as “NRA hunters who drink beer, don’t vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend.” Former NRA rep. Richard Feldman talks about his dealings with the elder Cuomo in his book “Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist.”
Planted WSJ story in my view. Mendicancy.
Cuomo’s desperately trying to get the media to bail his ass out. These types of stories which rely heavily on polls are always suspect.
Do you really believe the majority of people are ok or about right with gun bill. If so why would over 51 county legislatures be asking for repeal.
IMHO it’s a planted story so they can say WSJ finds him still popular.
NYC media is doing their best to ignore the gun issue and pump up Cuomo.
So maybe some marching orders to direct an onslaught of thoughtful letters and phone calls to the editorial departments are in order. Could put up a template and editorial contacts.
There is another model that would be useful here. The way it works is there is a central website that collects all of the articles on the subject daily. They post them on the site and have email blasts to subscribers. The posts include contact information to the editors, reporter who wrote the article, etc. From there activists write short pointed responses. It’s a numbers game, but it does give people another way to be active and hone their arguments. It also provides some influence on public perception.
Sienna College, Marist College? Polls from the Albany or NYC area? Are they representative of the WHOLE state? I don’t know of anybody in Western NY who’s been asked anything by these jokers.