As Governor Cuomo delivers his eighth budget, he’s beginning the year with his best favorability rating in four years.
A new Siena Poll finds Cuomo’s favorability at 62-30 percent, up from 52-43 percent among likely voters back in November. His job performance rating is 50-48 percent, up from a negative 45-54 percent in November. Fifty-five percent of New York voters are prepared to elect him to a third term, compared with 36 percent who want someone else.
On other issues, 43 percent of New Yorkers say the new federal tax law will make the state’s economy worse, 24 percent think we’ll do better and 21 percent think it’s a wash. Forty-five percent think they’ll do about the same financially under the new tax law, 33 percent say it will hurt them and only 15 percent believe they’ll be better off.
Perennial favorites education and jobs have been shoved out of their place as the top two issues voters want the governor to focus on this year. Tax and health care are now the voters’ top concerns; taxes for Republicans and Independents, health care for the Democrats.