Gov. Andrew Cuomo is enjoying a formidable base of support 18 months before Election Day, with nearly half of respondents to a new poll saying they would vote to re-elect him.
That backing is increasingly coming from Democrat-heavy New York City and the suburbs, while enthusiasm has ebbed upstate, a largely Republican area where the Democratic governor once held wider bipartisan appeal, the NBC New York/Wall Street Journal/Marist College poll shows.