ALBANY — While New Yorkers continue to strongly approve of the job Gov. Cuomo is doing, they’re sending him a big “not so fast” when it comes to talk he’ll run for president in 2016, according to a poll released yesterday.
The Siena College survey found that, by a lopsided 83 to 14 percent, voters say that it’s way too premature for the governor to consider running for higher office and that he should concentrate his energies on solving the state’s considerable problems.
Voters also were against, but by a far smaller margin, speculation that Cuomo could become President Obama’s running mate for vice president next year.
Thirty-nine percent said they would support Obama picking Cuomo to replace Vice President Joe Biden, but 51 percent were opposed. Ten percent were unsure.
“Voters think it is way too early to start printing Cuomo 2016 bumper stickers,” said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.
The poll, meanwhile, found Cuomo with a strong 71 to 21 percent favorability rating in the wake of last month’s ending of a legislative session that saw same-sex marriages legalized and a property-tax cap passed.
Cuomo’s job-performance rating has also risen slightly, from 55-41 percent to 58-40 percent.
Polling from across the nation in recent months has shown that Cuomo is the country’s most popular large-state governor.
