Power-hungry Michael Bloomberg's approval rating slips.....

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November 21, 2008, 11:58 am
Bloomberg’s Approval Rating Slips in Poll
By Sewell Chan


A majority of registered voters, 59 percent, still believe Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is doing an excellent or good job, but his approval rating has slipped from 68 percent in just a month and is below 60 percent for the first time since August 2005, according to results from a Marist Poll survey released on Friday.

The poll said the mayor’s approval ratings — while still enviably high by the standards of Washington — was higher than the level recorded in August 2005, when 53 percent approved of the mayor’s job. Three months later, the city’s voters resoundingly returned the mayor to a second term; now the mayor is seeking a third term in 2009, after a much-debated effort to revise the city’s term limits law to permit him to run again.

The new poll found that 39 percent of voters expressed disapproval of the mayor: 28 percent rated his job performance as fair, while 11 percent rated it poor.

This survey was conducted from Nov. 17-19 and involved 696 registered voters in the city who were interviewed by telephone. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percent.

Significantly, 47 percent of voters said they believed the city was headed in the wrong direction, compared with 45 percent who said the city is on the right path. By comparison, two years ago, in a March 2006 Marist survey, 64 percent of registered voters said the city was moving in the right direction compared with 30 percent who thought it was going the wrong way. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/bloombergs-approval-rating-slips/?hp

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1. He plans to balance his budget on the backs of the middle and working class.

And he thinks he's entitled to be king of NYC because he hasn't a clue what to do with the rest of his life.