NY Voters Side With Gov. Cuomo Over Mayor de Blasio On Pre-K Funding: Quinnipiac

[hrmjustin]

CELESTE KATZ

By a 49% to 40% margin, city voters support Cuomo's proposal to provide universal pre-k without a tax hike over the mayor's insistence on paying for the expansion by raising levies on high earners. Statewide, registered voters back the Cuomo plan 47% to 37%.

"The mayor made his argument again in his State of the City speech. It will be interesting to see how a mayor elected with a huge margin of a small turnout fares with up-for-election state officials,” Quinnipiac's Maurice Carroll said in a release.

Cuomo's plan played better across nearly every gender, political and geographic group, save Democrats, who support de Blasio's tax-the-rich idea 49% to 39%.

The survey found voters both overwhelmingly support pre-kindergarten programming and having the state fund it. In general, 76% said the state should pay, including an overwhelming 91% of Democrats.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2014/02/ny-voters-side-with-gov-cuomo-over-mayor-de-blasio-on-pre-k-funding-quinnipiac

[vi5]

1. This sums up the entire country in one article/issue

"We want this, but we don't want to have to pay for it or sacrifice anything else to get it!!!!"

It also seems to present it as an across the board tax hike to pay for it rather than a tax hike on the wealthy which is what Deblasio is actually proposing. I wonder how those numbers would have changed if it was phrased properly (unless it was and I'm reading the article/numbers incorrectly).