Suozzi has a long road ahead of him to the Governor's office

                                                                                  

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi of Glen Cove with President Joe Biden (source: Facebook)


U.S. Congressman Tom Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive, has a tough path ahead of him to win the Democratic primary for governor in New York State, according to a poll released today.

A majority of voters don't know who he is, according to the Siena College Research Institute poll.

Not Democrats, not Republicans, not even downstate voters.

Worse, the Glen Cove Democrat ties with Bill de Blasio, outgoing New York City mayor, in the percentage of New Yorkers who would vote for him in the Democratic primary: 6 percent.

Only the category "vote for someone else, unnamed" got a lower percentage.

The poll sampled 785 New York registered voters from Nov.  29 through Dec. 3.

Suozzi is not bashful nor a wallflower so it's difficult to see why he's still unknown.

According to the poll, 65 percent of New York voters don't know him or have no opinion of him, including 70 percent of independent voters.

As for Democrats, who would be voting in the primary, 61 percent statewide never heard of Suozzi while 22 percent hold a favorable opinion.

Even 56 percent of downstate suburban voters don't know Suozzi or have no opinion of him.

Both statewide and in the downstate suburbs, 36 percent of voters would cast their ballots for Gov. Kathy Hochul, who inherited the governor's office when Andrew Cuomo resigned in August.

More downstate voters would choose Attorney General Letitia James than statewide voters: 21 percent to 18 percent.

Downstate voters prefer Suozzi to deBlasio or New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, but not by much.

And take a look at President Joe Biden's poll numbers in Blue New York.

Nearly 60 percent of New Yorkers think Democrat Biden is doing a fair to poor job as president.

In downstate suburban suburbs, including Nassau and Suffolk,  72 percent of voters say Biden is doing a fair or poor job as president compared to 28 percent who rate his job performance as excellent or good.

Those negative numbers help explain why there was a red wave on Long Island this November, with Democratic Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Democratic Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini losing to Republican challengers.

Statewide, 74 percent of independent or other party voters say Biden is doing a fair to poor job. Of those, 50 percent rate his performance as poor.

If Suozzi wants to get votes, he may want to take down that photo of him and Biden from Facebook.

                                                                              


                                                                        

 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Nassau CSEA contract deal -- talk of the county for two days -- finally announced (UPDATED)

Image
Talk around Nassau County for the past two days has been that Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman had struck a new labor agreement, signed Monday, with the county's largest union, the Nassau Civil Service Employees Association. The CSEA, which include most non-law enforcement county employees, has been working without a contract since the end of 2017. As of June, there were 3,359 fulltime CSEA members. An announcement went out late today but it didn't say much: A spokesman for Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman did not respond to an email today asking when the CSEA deal would be announced. Everyone is looking at the CSEA because exempt employees -- county workers who are hired and fired at will -- traditionally are given the same benefits as the union members. But the exempts are not happy with some of the rumors about the agreement: one is that the CSEA will take a lesser health insurance plan in return for an upfront payment, perhaps of $1,500, for each member....
Read more

Democrat lawyer prepares to challenge Donnelly for Nassau DA

Image
                                                                               From Aloise Linked in Post A female Democratic lawyer backed by former Democratic Congresswoman and former Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice is trying to gather support to make a run against Republican District Attorney Anne Donnelly next year. Nicole Aloise, the daughter of a prominent New York City judge,  has a fundraiser scheduled  tomorrow night at the Garden City home of developer Peter Florey, president of the New York State Builders Association. Tickets range from in price from $250 to $20,000. Aloise says in a post announcing her campaign on Linked In that she has been a prosecutor in both the Nassau and Queens District Attorney offices. A quick internet search shows no other runs for poli...
Read more

Local Nassau CSEA president and VP kicked out by state union

Image
                                                                               Nassau CSEA poster truck in Long Beach earlier this month                    Nassau CSEA Local 830 president Ron Gurrieri and vice president Bob Arciello were removed from their union positions today following an angry month-long public fight with Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman over health insurance. State CSEA president Mary Sullivan notified members in a letter today that she had removed Gurrieri and Arciello, explaining the...
Read more