| Results of SurveyUSA News Poll #15751 |
 | Do you approve or disapprove of the job David Paterson is doing as Governor? |
| 600 Adults | All | Gender | Age | Race | Home Ownership | Marital Status | Job Status | Party Affiliation | Ideology | Income | Region | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Margin of Sampling Error: ± 3.7% | Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Hispanic | Other | Own | Rent | Single | Married | Separate | Divorced | Widowed | Un-marri | Student | Full-tim | Part-tim | Homemake | Unemploy | Retired | Republic | Democrat | Independ | Conserva | Moderate | Liberal | < $50K | > $50K | NYC | NYC subu | Upstate | |
| Approve | 24% | 24% | 23% | 23% | 24% | 26% | 21% | 19% | 49% | 21% | 21% | 21% | 27% | 24% | 22% | ** | 31% | 27% | ** | 40% | 17% | 22% | 29% | 39% | 24% | 15% | 31% | 17% | 18% | 25% | 28% | 26% | 21% | 27% | 21% | 21% |
| Disapprove | 71% | 72% | 70% | 73% | 68% | 71% | 73% | 76% | 48% | 70% | 69% | 74% | 65% | 70% | 74% | ** | 62% | 72% | ** | 53% | 78% | 69% | 69% | 54% | 70% | 82% | 62% | 80% | 80% | 68% | 62% | 67% | 75% | 67% | 70% | 77% |
| Not Sure | 6% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 8% | 4% | 6% | 5% | 3% | 9% | 10% | 5% | 8% | 6% | 5% | ** | 7% | 1% | ** | 7% | 5% | 10% | 2% | 7% | 6% | 3% | 7% | 3% | 2% | 7% | 10% | 8% | 4% | 6% | 8% | 2% |
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| Composition of Adults | 100% | 47% | 53% | 32% | 30% | 21% | 17% | 64% | 14% | 14% | 8% | 57% | 33% | 23% | 56% | 3% | 7% | 8% | 3% | 8% | 50% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 15% | 25% | 49% | 22% | 31% | 35% | 19% | 43% | 57% | 43% | 25% | 32% |