Reply #58: Yesterday's Siena poll shows that 71% of New Yorkers do not want

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David Paterson as their governor but instead want "someone else."

http://www.siena.edu/uploadedfiles/home/Parents_and_Community/Community_Page/SRI/SNY_Poll/09%20September%20SNY%20Poll%20Release.pdf


Sixty-one percent do not feel that Paterson has the "leadership skills" necessary to run the state.

Giuliani appears to have a higher view of himself as New York's next governor than actual New York voters do, inasmuch as about half of them do not want him involved in a statewide race at all.

Giuliani would lose a general election to Andrew Cuomo:

Cuomo -- 53%
Giuliani -- 39%

Cuomo also would defeat Rick Lazio:

Cuomo -- 64%
Lazio -- 18%

Governor Paterson badly loses to Cuomo in a Democratic primary race:

Cuomo -- 66%
Paterson -- 20%

The numbers for Giuliani are not terribly encouraging. For Paterson, they're disastrous.