{"id":1510,"date":"2010-01-18T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/18\/siena-gillibrand-losing-support\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:27:00","slug":"siena-gillibrand-losing-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/18\/siena-gillibrand-losing-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Siena: Gillibrand losing support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/25370439\/Sny0110-Crosstabs-Final\"> new Siena poll<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.edu\/uploadedfiles\/home\/parents_and_community\/community_page\/sri\/sny_poll\/0110_SNY_PollL.pdf\">finds<\/a> Senator Kirsten Gillibrand losing some love from New Yorkers.  More people view her unfavorably, 32% to 30% (with an even bigger &#8220;don&#8217;t know\/no opinion&#8221; of 38%).  She&#8217;s described as favorable by just 37% of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>What might be the biggest number is how the moderate Democrat fares with independents: 44% of them view her unfavorably.<\/p>\n<p>Those sentiments bear out in potential races.  Just 29% of voters say they&#8217;d vote for Gillibrand in 2010.  45% say they&#8217;d vote for &#8220;someone else&#8221;.  According to the poll, Gillibrand would beat Harold Ford, Jr. in a run-off, 41% to 17%.  But former Governor George Pataki would beat Gillibrand 51% to 38%.<\/p>\n<p>Pollster Steven Greenberg says all these numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt.  Gillibrand &#8211; appointed by Governor Paterson about a year ago &#8211; has never run for statewide office before, so many voters just don&#8217;t know her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/audio\/GILLSIEN.mp3\" width=\"144\" height=\"18\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Still, these numbers are worse for Gillibrand than in the last poll in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/149\/story\/926536.html\">This Buffalo News columnist<\/a> believes it&#8217;s because all the people &#8211; from Sen. Schumer to female lawmakers to the White House &#8211; who came out to defend Gillibrand against a potential challenge from Harold Ford, Jr. made her look weak.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Gillibrand and her record so far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Siena poll finds Senator Kirsten Gillibrand losing some love from New Yorkers. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}