Poll: Majority of New Yorkers think Rep. Weiner should not resign

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Poll: Majority of New Yorkers think Rep. Weiner should not resign

A majority of New Yorkers do not want Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign his congressional seat, a new poll found.

According to the NY1-Marist poll, released Tuesday night, 51 percent of New York voters think Weiner (D-N.Y.) should remain in Congress. Meanwhile, 30 percent think he should step down, and 18 percent aren't sure.

The poll comes in the aftermath of Weiner's admission on Monday that he engaged in "inappropriate" correspondence with six women over the last three years, including sending a message from his Twitter account to a woman of a photo of his waist area clad in underwear.

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The same NY1-Marist poll found that 61 percent of New Yorkers think Weiner did something unethical, while 13 percent think he did nothing wrong. Thirteen percent believe Weiner did something illegal, and 14 percent are unsure whether he did something wrong or illegal.

The poll found 56 percent of New Yorkers do not want Weiner to run for mayor in light of the scandal, while 25 percent think he should and 19 percent are unsure. Weiner ran for mayor in 2005 and appeared to be gearing up for another run in 2013.

When the media finds the next distraction (last week it was saturation coverage of DSK, just in case people forgot)this story will fade into the background. UNLESS Democrats work to drive him out.

The people, even at the height of this non-scandal generated by the media working together with Andrew Breitbart, as they always do when he goes after Democrats, want their Congressman to stay.

The sad thing is that the Politicians don't care what the people want. They are far more worried about their own careers.

If they drive him out against the wishes of his contituents, I believe they will pay a price at the polls for that.

NYers are pretty practical about human failures. He need not have worried about them.

If Nancy Pelosi asks him to resign, then she must ask Vitter to resign.

As Dana Millbank said today 'if it was about the lying, there would only be about two dozen members of Congress left'.

I don't like what he did. But I don't like what a lot of politicians do, especially on the issues.

I hope he listens to the people, as Rangel did, and ignores the politicians who have only their own interests in mind.

I will not be distracted from the fact that the real bad guy in all of this is Andrew Breitbart.

Or from the fact that the real story that the media should have been covering, was the Clarence Thomas story.