Empire State Blog - NY TImes
Davids in the Year of Goliaths
Categories: General, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Tom Suozzi, Players, Governor's Race, U.S. Senate Race, Jonathan Tasini

Jonathan Tasini in Union Square last month. (Librado Romero/The New York Times)
Sure, it’s well within the margin of error, but it is still worth noting that the new WNBC/Marist poll shows that Jonathan Tasini is doing better against his 400-pound Democratic gorilla than Tom Suozzi is doing against his.

Mr. Tasini, the anti-war candidate challenging Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, would get the support of 13 percent of the registered Democrats polled.

And Mr. Suozzi, the first Democrat to be elected Nassau County Executive in a generation, would get the support of just 10 percent of registered Democrats polled in his race against Eliot Spitzer. And this comes after Mr. Suozzi spent $6.3 million so far this year.

And it turns out that for some voters, State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi is still “Alan Who?”

Mr. Hevesi — who was so unknown in his first race for New York City Comptroller that his ads began with the question “Alan who?” – is still unknown by nearly 3 in 10 voters, the poll found.

Maybe all that hullabaloo about his comment about the president didn’t make such a ripple after all.

The poll, of 800 registered voters, has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points when it comes to its sample of registered Democrats.

— Michael Cooper