New York – A bombshell new poll out this morning shows that the Republican candidates for attorney general and state comptroller, who’ve trailed their Democratic opponents for weeks, have closed the gap and are tied just a day before Election Day.
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The Siena College survey also found that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo continues to hold a massive, 25 percentage point, lead over Buffalo builder and Republican candidate Carl Paladino in the race for governor.
But the big news in the poll was that Republican AG hopeful and Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan is tied, 44-44 percent, with Manhattan state Sen. Eric Schneiderman while investor Harry Wilson, the GOP comptroller candidate, is also tied, 44-44 percent, with appointed incumbent Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
The new figures means Wilson has closed a 17 percent point gap with DiNapoli that Siena found sevreal weeks ago while Donovan closed a gap of seven points.
“While Schneiderman improved his support among Democrats, Donovan improved his support among Republicans and now has a majority of independents supporting him,” said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.
“Schneiderman continues to lead big in New York City. However, his previous narrow lead of 44-41 percent in the downstate suburbs has now become a 21-point lead for Donovan.
“Harry Wilson has narrowed, no, has eliminated Tom DiNapoli’s 17-point lead. Both candidates have the support of 44 percent of the voters, with 12 percent still undecided,” continued Greenberg.
“What sports analogy should I use? If this were a baseball game, it would be tied heading to the ninth inning. In football, it would be tied at the two-minute warning. Or perhaps a fifth set tie-breaker at the U.S. Open. But no matter what sports analogy you use, it is clear that momentum is on Wilson’s side,” Greenberg continued.
DiNapoli is great. He had a heck of a mess to clean up from Hevesi and he has done a great job. I am voting for him.
Hope you will too.
You all should read the article about his opponent losing major $ and somehow managing to get a tax refund the NEXT year of hundreds of thousands of $$
Sounds a bit odd.
Shneiderman’s campaign began to crumble when he announced that he would give Reverend Al Sharpton an office “right next door to his AG office” and promised Sharpton a senior advisor position in his AG office. What a dreck.
Al Sharpton said “I gonna hep Eric snderberg pull dis election off so I can be de nest depty atirny genel of noo yok. Sho’ nuff.”
Let not your heart be trouble, we republicans are gonna win big all over this country this Tues.
this is great news get rid of all the tax and spend liberals
I don’t trust any polls or pollsters.
They’re being maneuvered & tweaked !
Go Donovan! We need some checks and balances in Albany. The state is currently run by one party and the unions.
Go Donovan Go.