Kathy Hochul leads Lee Zeldin by 24 points 11 weeks before NY election

[Kamaji]

Kathy Hochul leads Lee Zeldin by 24 points 11 weeks before NY election: poll

By Zach Williams
August 23, 2022

Gov. Kathy Hochul has a whopping 24-point lead over Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin with 11 weeks to go before Election Day, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The incumbent Democrat had 55% support among likely voters in the poll conducted between Aug. 17 and Aug. 22 by SurveyUSA on behalf of WNYT-TV in Albany. Another 31% backed Zeldin and 14% said they were undecided.

The 24-point margin is Hochul’s biggest lead over Zeldin in any survey since the congressman won the June 23 Republican primary. Polls taken last month by Emerson College and Siena College showed the governor in front by 16 and 14 points, respectively. Earlier this month, Republican pollster John McLaughlin released a survey showing Hochul in front by just 8 points.

There was some good news for Zeldin in the survey, with 33% of voters saying battling inflation was the most important issue when it comes to deciding their vote for governor. Health care and criminal justice reform were a distant second on 12% each.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/kathy-hochul-leads-lee-zeldin-by-24-points-11-weeks-before-ny-election-poll/

[Kamaji]

NY'ers sure love their fascists, don't they.

[mystery-ak]

The SurveyUSA poll was drawn from 715 likely New York voters and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4.6 percentage points.

Zeldin spokeswoman Katie Vincentz criticized the survey, pointing out it had forecast a narrow Zeldin victory in the primary, which the congressman won by 21 points.

“Our pollster, John McLaughlin, is currently tracking the race at an 8-point difference,” Vincentz told The Post in an email Tuesday.

“This is a rescue mission to save our state and losing is not an option,” she added.

I think John McLaughlin's poll is more accurate or at least I hope so...

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The NE is filled with elderly liberal women, angry and ugly. It's hopeless.

[andy58-in-nh]

It's hard to overcome numbers like this:

New York State voter registration by party Feb. 2022 -

Dem. 6,472,096
Rep.  2,848,894
None 2,984,900

[cato potatoe]

Well, 60% of the voters are in the NYC metro.  Once the suburbs took a hard left turn in the 90s, the state became unfixable.  Yes, the voters got desperate and sent up Pataki and Giuliani.  Nothing they achieved could be sustained for any length of time.  The state senate used to be a firewall, thanks to a quirk in the way seats were allocated, but that also went off the deep end after 2018.

[Fishrrman]

My prediction, from last June:
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,471955.msg2654615.html#msg2654615