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The slumbering Democratic midterm electorate awakened this year, in both New York and the nation. Across the country, the sum of the votes of the Democratic candidates for every House of Representatives race in the nation was 60.5 million and still counting. In 2014, only 35.6 million voted Democratic. While Democrats are celebrating their booming…
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One of the unending surprises of life in the Trump era for Americans who oppose the current President is how well he does in his general approval rating, when it seems so obvious that he is a disgraceful liar and con man. Well, the good news is that questions about Trump’s credibility in those same…
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Here are the assumptions behind Siena’s Poll that Cuomo leads Molinaro 49-36 in the gubernatorial election tomorrow. 59% of the vote will be over 55- a mere 8% will be 18-34. New York City will be 27% of the vote, Upstate 46%.
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The midterm election is coming to its conclusion, and the importance of this election and the tightness of so many races has only reinforced the addiction to polls I developed in 32 years as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly. I know, as we all do, that polls can be wrong; sometimes,…
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New York and New Jersey competitive House races are battleground districts in the midterms next week. Here’s a straight-no-chaser article reporting on the polling status of these races. In Upstate New York, two incumbent Republicans are in dead heats with their Democratic opponents, according to recent polls from the Siena Research Institute, and a third,…
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New York City and its economy have been growing at an extraordinary pace in recent years. It is quite clear that the City is generating jobs, development, and wealth. It continues to have major problems – an affordable housing and homeless crisis, a deteriorated mass transit system, and nearly 20% of its population still trapped…
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The New York Times and the Siena Polling Institute have joined forces to conduct extensive polling about the midterm elections and have completed 31 competitive House districts across the country, from Maine to New Mexico, to California, Iowa, Minnesota, and all around the diverse parts of the American nation. The results of these polls demonstrate…
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There was an extraordinary turnout in the just-completed statewide Democratic primaries on Thursday,September 13. In the City alone, 855,000 Democrats came to the polls. That vote substantially exceeded the crowded and competitive 2013 Democratic Mayoral primary (690,000), was nearly triple the city’s turnout in the 2014 Cuomo-Teachout primary ( 298,000), and came somewhat close to…
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The U.S. Labor Department just reported the nation’s payroll and unemployment rate numbers for August 2018 this past Friday, September 7th. Any bluster from President Trump about how great things are aside, the numbers show that the pace of employment growth between the two administrations- one for 83 months and the other for 19 months-…
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