By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — New Yorkers are very pleased with both Mayor Michael Bloomberg and likely gubernatorial candidate New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, polls released Tuesday showed.
Bloomberg was voted best New York City mayor in the past 30 years by a plurality – 38 percent – of registered voters. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani got second-best with 31 percent of the vote.
Fifty-six percent of registered voters approved of Bloomberg's performance, according to the poll.
On the state level, 74 percent of New York State voters said they thought Cuomo had been doing a good job as Attorney General, a poll by Quinnipiac University found.
Cuomo, who has maintained an approval rating above 70 percent for the past 9 months, leads his nearest Republican opponent in the hypothetical New York governor's race by a margin of 2 to 1, according to the Quinnipiac numbers.
If the general election were held today, Cuomo would win 55 percent of the vote, compared to Republican Rick Lazio's 26 percent, the survey reported.
“None of the Republican wannabes draws more than the generic Republican vote against Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, but let’s see what happens when we have a campaign,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
The Quinnipiac poll also showed that former Republican Governor George Pataki would beat current U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the race for her seat, if he ran and the election were held today.
Neither Cuomo nor Pataki have announced that they will run in the respective elections.
Cuomo is expected to announce any day now.
