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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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Yes, it’s true. Even Fox News has the Democrats ahead of Republicans by eleven points in a late summer poll asking Americans what party they will choose in the November midterm elections for the House of Representatives. The results of an average of similar polls, called the National Generic Congressional Ballot, show the Democrats about…
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There is a sudden new source of money in New York State that is getting little attention in the debate about where the MTA will get resources to fund the ambitious plans to solve its problems- let alone just manage to keep the mass transit system going. That source is: THE BIG CORPORATE INCOME TAX…
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The Albany Times-Union advocated a number of remedies to New York’s laws to increase voting participation in the State and remove obstacles to the ease of voting and access to the polls in a July 9th Editorial on the subject. While their ideas were good and I agreed with them, I wrote a Letter to…
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The health of the Upstate New York economy will be a major issue in the coming election for Governor of New York State. Two candidates in the general election, Republican Mark Molinaro from Dutchess County, and Stephanie Miner, the former Mayor of Syracuse, a Democrat planning to run on an independent line, hail from Upstate…
