The NY Post reports: A little-noticed number in last week’s Marist College poll on the Gillibrand-Ford situation suggests that Sen. Charles Schumer’s national profile could be affecting his approval rating at home.
The poll had Schumer’s negative rating at 42 percent, where it has been for months in Marist — but his approval rating was at 51 percent, one of his lowest in that survey in recent years, and down from 58 percent in September.
“We’re seeing some general erosion in his numbers,” said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff, “from what’s been a consistent mid- to high-50s. This is an electorate that’s increasingly unhappy.”
Insiders say Schumer is watching the national trend for any implications for himself — and in a clear signal of anxiety, he was one of the first out of the box with a statement after the Massachusetts election acknowledging the anger among voters at the ruling party.
After years acting as a nonpartisan figure, Schumer tone has become increasingly partisan, and as he’s become more a of a senior figure in Washington — which could leave him without a firewall against national voter anger against the ruling Democratic party.
It’s just one poll, and two other surveys have his numbers higher:
Quinnipiac University and Sienna College have his approval over 60 percent — but for a veteran poll-parser and political obssesser like Schumer, the numbers could be a flag.
New York’s senior senator is the No. 3 Democrat in the senate, and some believe he’s eyeing a higher position.
Longtime Schumer watchers were surprised his pro-Martha Coakley email to supporters calling his now-colleague Scott Brown a “teabagger” last week, using the dismissive term used for the conservative Tea Party activists by hard-core Dems. And he’d long shied away from fights like the one he’s now locked in to bolster Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand by pushing back hard on potential primary rivals.
(Source: NY Post)
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I believe it would be useful for the Senior Senator from the Empire State to get a little mussar from his constituents. He can’t have it both ways. Either he’s FOR Obamacare which according to some reports will cost NY dearly, or he’s against it, but he’ll support it as long as Harry Reid makes it worth our while in other benefits (like Louisiana, Nebraska and Michigan). But to silently go along like a lapdog while the State goes to pot makes me think that he got promised something on the side! The question is: What did Gillibrand get?
I am sure it is all because of the “Mark Levin Show”. But, the truth is that he has not been wonderful about bringing home the bacon and it would have been nice if he would have raised a hue and cry about Gitmo detainees being tried in federal court here in New York City.
Its way overdue for this idiot to go
Schumer and Elliot Engel are the two lowest human beings of whom I’ve ever had the horrible displeasure of having to be abused. They are radical, extremest, left-wing, hacks of the worst, most dangerous and contemptible sort. They constantly attack us with their scorn for the truth, what’s been proven vs disproved, and bash us over the head with their terribly costly ponzi schemes, that have finally lead to hundreds of trillions of dollars for which we & the next few generations will be increasingly paying. Social Security started dishonestly in 1935 by FDR, mass murderer of Jews for not bombing railroad tracks leading to concentration camps. He claimed it would be “insurance.” What started as 40 workers paying for 1 retiree is now a few people. But with 78 million now beginning to retire, 10,000/day, Social Security alone will need us to give it 60! TRILLION! DOLLARS! over the next 30 years! Those 2 lie constantly about so many things, especially about what they & their opposition in congress believe that it’s unbearably sickening!