Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic candidate for governor, is making inroads both in Republican strongholds and on traditional Republican issues, with voters seeing him as the most likely to improve the economy, help avert terrorism and hold taxes steady or lower them, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Five weeks before the election, about 8 in 10 voters said that they had no opinion of Mr. Spitzer’s Republican rival, John Faso. Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, is supported by a majority of those surveyed not only in the Democratic-dominated city, but also in its more heavily Republican suburbs and in upstate areas.
The poll showed that Mr. Faso’s central campaign message — his pledge to cut taxes, and his contention that Mr. Spitzer would raise them — was either not getting through to voters, or not resonating with them. While 32 percent of those surveyed said that they thought taxes would go up if Mr. Spitzer was elected governor, roughly the same amount, 37 percent, said they thought that taxes would go up if Mr. Faso was elected.
Fifty-three percent said that they thought that Mr. Spitzer would keep taxes at their current levels, or lower them, while 40 percent said that Mr. Faso would.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/nyregion/29york.html?hp&ex=1159502400&en=3a84605eee939936&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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