About this Poll

This survey of 833 New York State adults was conducted June 23rd through July 1st, 2014 by The Marist Poll sponsored in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and NBC 4 New York. Adults 18 years of age and older residing in the state of New York were interviewed by telephone using live interviewers.

Landline telephone numbers were randomly selected based upon a list of telephone exchanges from throughout the state from ASDE Survey Sampler, Inc. The exchanges were selected to ensure that each region was represented in proportion to its population. To increase coverage, this landline sample was supplemented by respondents reached through random dialing of cell phone numbers from Survey Sampling International. The samples were then combined and balanced to reflect the 2010 Census results for age, gender, income, race, and region. Respondents in the household were selected by asking for the youngest male. Results for adults are statistically significant within ±3.4 percentage points. There are 673 registered voters. The results for this subset are statistically significant within ±3.8 percentage points. The error margin increases for cross-tabulations.