Governor Andrew Cuomo’s rating has hot the lowest level since he was elected as Governor in 2010. According to a new Siena research poll released Monday morning, Fifty two percent of new York voters say they are prepared to reelect Cuomo, while 41 percent would prefer someone else (down from 55 – 36 percent in May).

Cuomo’s favorability rating, 58-35 percent (down from 64-32 percent last month), is the lowest it has been since he’s been governor, as is his job performance rating at 50-49 percent (down from 52-47 percent in May).

“Governor Cuomo’s standing with voters has now reached the lowest since he’s been governor,” Siena pollster Steve Greenberg said. “His 58 percent favorable rating is the lowest it has ever been as governor – four points lower than the 62 percent rating he had two months ago – and the lowest it’s been since October 2010, one month before his election. His drop this month is more attributable to Democrats than to Republicans or independents.

“His job performance rating – now virtually dead even – is also the lowest it has been during his tenure as governor. For the fourth consecutive month and fourth time ever, more voters think he’s doing a poor job as governor than an excellent job,” Greenberg said. “While 62 percent of voters were prepared to re-elect Cuomo in December, that has fallen ten points, as the percentage of those preferring ‘someone else’ has climbed 12 points.”

Cuomo’s vulnerability seems to have propelled an aggressive Republican to gear up for a possible gubernatorial run next fall. Rensselaer County Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, 49, a former commercial pilot who in February compared Cuomo to Hitler over the way the governor rammed through the anti-gun SAFE Act, has privately told legislative colleagues he’s planning to run, Fred Dicker reports in the NY Post.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox recently described him to an associate as being on his “short list” of gubernatorial candidates.

“I am considering running for governor,” McLaughlin told The Post. “It took 12 years for people to get sick of Mario Cuomo, but upstate and, I think, on Long Island, people are already sick of Andrew Cuomo.”

“There are 4 million gun owners in this state, and I don’t know one who is going to vote for Cuomo. I’ve had people, including city money people, come to me and say, ‘If you get in, we can raise you a lot of money very quickly,’ ” he added.

McLaughlin promised a spirited race — if he does run — as he called himself “a man of the people,” in contrast to Cuomo, who he said was “the very definition of a bully. I personally don’t find Cuomo to be a very likeable person.”

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)