Politics & Government

Shameless NYC Embarrassed by Weiner, Spitzer

New poll says two-thirds of New Yorkers would avoid contact with these guys at a party.

New Yorkers are not a people who are easily embarrassed. The five boroughs are populated with people who do not care what you think, or anyone else for that matter.

So when Siena College releases a poll that says the majority of New Yorkers are ashamed to have Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer running for office, that's saying something. 

Siena College revealed Monday that more than two thirds of voters in the state think Weiner and Spitzer are an embarrassment, and 62 percent of voters in New York City think so. 

"Although 16 percent of New Yorkers think the national attention from the Weiner and Spitzer candidacies is ‘no big deal’ and eight percent find it entertaining, 68 percent — including 62 percent of New York City voters — say it’s embarrassing,” said pollster Steven Greenberg. 

Seriously, think about it. This is a city full of people who watch weirdos get naked on the subway every single day. New Yorkers are embarrassed by almost nothing. 

That's not the worst of it, at least for Weiner. According to Greenberg, the former congressman and rapidly waning mayoral hopeful just set a Siena College Polling Institute record for favorability ratings: a whopping 80 percent of those polled rated him unfavorably. 

That number unseats... Spitzer, who had a negative rating at 79 percent after his resignation from the governor's office.

Weiner's favorable rating was just 11 percent. That means nine percent of those polled couldn't make up their minds, and honestly at this point I'm not even sure who those people could be. 


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