Post by Moses on Jun 29, 2005 6:38:46 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/nyregion/metrocampaigns/29mayor.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
Headline: Poll Finds Bloomberg's Approval Rating Is Still on the Rise
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Mr. Bloomberg's job-approval rating stands at 50 percent, double where it was in July 2003, and a seven percentage point increase from February. The rise comes after a concerted effort by the Bloomberg camp to make voters more comfortable with the mayor, a Democratic businessman turned Republican politician, and with his performance on the three top concerns for New Yorkers polled: schools, housing and jobs.
(50% isn't much of an approval rating, and Bloomberg has spent a katizilion $$$ on Propagandizing himself. -- there is something wrong w/ our system where rich men can do this and hold office)
But the Times of course likes him, as the Post loves their boy, Anthony Williams.
No coincidence that the Times has editorially been promoting the totalitarian education policies of Bloomberg, whereas there is no link between Bloomberg's policies and the test scores that the Times has tried to link w/ Bloomberg policies:
Perhaps the most significant finding was that New Yorkers have begun to credit Mr. Bloomberg with what he considers his signature policies as mayor. Asked how much credit he deserved for rising test scores in the schools, 66 percent said "a lot" or "some." Mr. Bloomberg has said that voters should judge him principally on education.
But:
On the most important issues, 64 percent of those polled said they were not satisfied with the quality of public schools in New York City, compared with 24 percent who said they were. Forty-five percent said they believed that the amount of affordable housing had decreased under Mr. Bloomberg, while 27 said the stock of such housing had grown.
"The public school system is in bad shape," said Anthony Lee, a Bronx Democrat and a youth counselor with children in public school. "For one, they're overcrowded," he said, adding, "Teachers aren't paid what they should be paid, so they don't do the best jobs that they should be doing." The mayor's opponents have also chided him as preoccupied with Manhattan at the expense of the other boroughs, a view that 67 percent of voters shared and 24 percent did not. Fifty-six percent believed that Mr. Bloomberg had not visited their neighborhood since becoming mayor.
Of course the Dems are on board w/ these totalitarian education policies, and, as with the war, they only oppose them on the margins, and have no proposals of their own.
Headline: Poll Finds Bloomberg's Approval Rating Is Still on the Rise
copy:
Mr. Bloomberg's job-approval rating stands at 50 percent, double where it was in July 2003, and a seven percentage point increase from February. The rise comes after a concerted effort by the Bloomberg camp to make voters more comfortable with the mayor, a Democratic businessman turned Republican politician, and with his performance on the three top concerns for New Yorkers polled: schools, housing and jobs.
(50% isn't much of an approval rating, and Bloomberg has spent a katizilion $$$ on Propagandizing himself. -- there is something wrong w/ our system where rich men can do this and hold office)
But the Times of course likes him, as the Post loves their boy, Anthony Williams.
No coincidence that the Times has editorially been promoting the totalitarian education policies of Bloomberg, whereas there is no link between Bloomberg's policies and the test scores that the Times has tried to link w/ Bloomberg policies:
Perhaps the most significant finding was that New Yorkers have begun to credit Mr. Bloomberg with what he considers his signature policies as mayor. Asked how much credit he deserved for rising test scores in the schools, 66 percent said "a lot" or "some." Mr. Bloomberg has said that voters should judge him principally on education.
But:
On the most important issues, 64 percent of those polled said they were not satisfied with the quality of public schools in New York City, compared with 24 percent who said they were. Forty-five percent said they believed that the amount of affordable housing had decreased under Mr. Bloomberg, while 27 said the stock of such housing had grown.
"The public school system is in bad shape," said Anthony Lee, a Bronx Democrat and a youth counselor with children in public school. "For one, they're overcrowded," he said, adding, "Teachers aren't paid what they should be paid, so they don't do the best jobs that they should be doing." The mayor's opponents have also chided him as preoccupied with Manhattan at the expense of the other boroughs, a view that 67 percent of voters shared and 24 percent did not. Fifty-six percent believed that Mr. Bloomberg had not visited their neighborhood since becoming mayor.
Of course the Dems are on board w/ these totalitarian education policies, and, as with the war, they only oppose them on the margins, and have no proposals of their own.