Q Poll: Voters Don’t Like Their Legislature, But Like Their Legislator
Quinnipiac University is second out today with a poll on the Albany chaos, with this one finding that 78 percent of New Yorkers saying that the Legislature is dysfunctional.
Moreover, 69 percent of voters disapprove of the job the Legislature is doing, the biggest number ever found by Quinnipiac.
But the poll found another ongoing trend: Voters may dislike the Legislature, but they still like their hometown legislator, evidenced by the 98 percent re-election rate in the Legislature.
Voters say 48 percent to 27 percent that their state senator deserves to be re-elected in 2010. Democrats back their state senator 56 percent to 19 percent, while Republicans do 41 percent to 36 percent.
“Dysfunctional? That could be the automatic adjective for Albany. Maybe we should find a more vivid word. Three quarters of New York State voters say their state government doesn’t work,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
“And while almost nobody likes the ‘legislature,’ that big impersonal word, many voters still back their own State Senator, a person with a name and face they know.”
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