By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Andrew Cuomo is the overwhelming favorite in the race to replace David Paterson as governor, a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows.
Cuomo, the state attorney general and Democratic Party nominee, leads his rivals by more than 2-1, trouncing Republicans Rick Lazio 57-25, and real estate developer Carl Paladino 60-23, it said.
But that doesn't mean voters think Cuomo, son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, has done enough to tell voters how he plans to tackle Albany's problems.
While 69 percent of voters said they approve of the job he is doing, a majority of voters — 63 percent — said that he hasn't done enough to explain how he'll fix the state's budget woes. Another 44 percent said they believe that he is “ducking his responsibility as a candidate" by not being more open.
Albany also took a beating in the poll as voters also gave what the poll describes as the "worst score ever" to the State Legislature, which now has a disapproval rating of 75 percent.
More than half of voters said they want to see their local state senator and assembly member booted from office as part of an Albany clean-up.
“State legislators ought to be nervous," Carroll said. "More than half of voters say that, to clean house in Albany, they’d even vote against their own senator or Assembly member.
The poll surveyed 1,497 registered voters last week and has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percent.
