ALBANY — Most New Yorkers approve of the job the governor is doing to address the COVID crisis, according to a new poll from Siena College.
The survey, conducted earlier this month and released Tuesday, found that 61% of voters give the governor high marks for his management of the pandemic, down slightly from 63% in a previous poll.
However, Cuomo received mixed reviews when New Yorkers were asked about specific subjects, with 67% giving him positive grades for communicating, only 48% think he’s doing a good job with vaccine rollout and 39% think he’s not done a good job with making public all data about COVID deaths of nursing home patients.
“Voters — especially Democrats — continue to give Cuomo strong marks for his overall handling of the pandemic,” Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said. “While Democrats are positive about Cuomo’s handling of the vaccine rollout and his plans to reopen New York, Republicans are overwhelmingly negative, and independents are negative as well.”
Still, the governor’s favorability rating remained at 56%, with 39% of respondents holding an unfavorable view of Cuomo, the Siena poll found.
Cuomo has faced mounting criticism in recent weeks over the state’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic and decisions to withhold data from the public.
Last month, Attorney General Letitia James issued a blistering report that accused the Cuomo administration of under-reporting nursing home deaths by as much 50%.
That prompted health officials to finally release a tally that included seniors who died after being transferred to hospitals. In all, more than 15,000 residents of eldercare and long-term facilities have died of coronavirus since last March.
On Monday, Cuomo acknowledged he and his administration made a “mistake” in not releasing accurate information sooner, saying it left a “void” that was filled by misinformation.
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Does a democrat have a brain?……..A new government study just out answers this obvious question but NY governor won’t release data siting concerns about negative results.
With the # of voters, saying he’s done a good job, ITS Obvious to ME, that no, the average dem voter does NOT have a brain.
OR A SOUL.
Time for him to go and take the new name of the bridge back with him. I want the Tappenzee back.
The one party system of Democrats / communists and look what it brought all of the liberals in big cities. The destruction of businesses, the destruction of the economy, no law and order, high crime and the killing of the elderly in nursing homes. New York and California, two peas in a pod!!!! Liberal voters are less than fools.
Don’t forget, coddling of CRIMINALS over victims of crime…
Living in California, you see stupidity of the electorate on full display. The politicians tell people how they are going to work against their best interests and then vote for them anyway. They never connect the actions with what they were told before the election.
Let me guess… the Scammatic company calculated the polls.
As an ex-NY’er I can attest ‘approval ratings’ are solely based on how much Free Stuff said politician doles out. Nothing more, nothing less.
And often that’s even IF That ‘free stuff’, doesn’t actually get out, its just promised.