NY-Quinnipiac: Hillary leads Christie by a huge margin, Cuomo not so much

[Tender Branson]

If the election for President were being held today, and the candidates were Hillary Clinton the Democrat and Christopher Christie the Republican, for whom would you vote ?

59% Hillary Clinton
32% Christopher Christie

If the election for President were being held today, and the candidates were Andrew Cuomo the Democrat and Christopher Christie the Republican, for whom would you vote ?

46% Andrew Cuomo
38% Christopher Christie

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Is your opinion of Hillary Clinton favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about her ?

71-24 favorable

Is your opinion of Andrew Cuomo favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him ?

52-27 favorable

Is your opinion of Christopher Christie favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him ?

55-17 favorable

From March 11 – 17, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,165 New York State voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-centers/polling-institute/new-york-state/release-detail?ReleaseID=1867

[Mr. Morden]

Cuomo job approval:
approve: 55% (down from 74% in December)
disapprove: 27%

Christie has net positive favorability among every demographic group, even blacks.

[Tender Branson]

Considering the above numbers, NY would probably be tied with Biden (against Christie).

Or Biden could even trail Christie at this point ...

[TDAS04]

New Yorkers know that Hillary Clinton served New York as a fantastic Senator, and that she would be marvelous as POTUS.

[BluegrassBlueVote]

I think a lot of the numbers behind Christie right now are Democrats who are pleased with his centrist/hardball rhetoric but wouldn't actually vote for him if he's up against a generic D.

But if he's able to keep up the persona by emerging from the primaries as the only moderate among a cannibalistic field of conservatives... watch out. He's gonna KILL it with indies against anybody not named Hillary.