| Results of SurveyUSA News Poll #16555 |
 | Do you approve or disapprove of the job David Paterson is doing as Governor? |
| 600 Adults | All | Gender | Age | Race | Home Ownership | Job Status | Party Affiliation | Ideology | Income | Region | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Margin of Sampling Error: ± 3.3% | Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Hispanic | Other | Own | Rent | Student | Full-tim | Part-tim | Homemake | Unemploy | Retired | Republic | Democrat | Independ | Conserva | Moderate | Liberal | < $50K | > $50K | NYC | NYC subu | Upstate | |
| Approve | 18% | 23% | 14% | 18% | 14% | 19% | 24% | 15% | 18% | 26% | 33% | 18% | 20% | 12% | 17% | 13% | 31% | 15% | 26% | 15% | 17% | 25% | 22% | 24% | 11% | 17% | 20% | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| Disapprove | 80% | 76% | 83% | 77% | 84% | 80% | 75% | 84% | 78% | 69% | 64% | 81% | 76% | 85% | 80% | 87% | 68% | 83% | 74% | 83% | 80% | 74% | 76% | 75% | 85% | 82% | 78% | 79% | 80% | 80% |
| Not Sure | 2% | 1% | 3% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 2% | 0% | 2% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 3% | 4% | 1% | 1% |
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| Composition of Adults | 100% | 47% | 53% | 32% | 29% | 23% | 17% | 64% | 14% | 14% | 8% | 55% | 36% | 10% | 48% | 10% | 7% | 10% | 15% | 26% | 47% | 23% | 27% | 34% | 24% | 44% | 56% | 41% | 26% | 32% |