Word: miringoff
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...York, says Lee M. Miringoff, who conducts polls for Marist College, Hillary Rodham Clinton's probable run for Senate isn't helping the vice president...
...most obvious and traditional measures, America is doing well. Unemployment is the lowest in five years, the economy is growing, and crime has eased somewhat. But underneath that surface is the accumulated wreckage of political paralysis, endemic violence, disintegrating families, two decades of wage stagnation and cultural vertigo. Marc Miringoff, director of Fordham University's Institute for Innovation in Social Policy, maintains an index of social health that factors in 16 social problems ranging from child abuse to the number of Americans on food stamps. In 1970, the index's first year, it stood at 73.8 out of a utopian...
...voters have been far more critical of Cuomo's own, more modest $1.6 billion cut, seen as cynical from a man who could have proposed it long before the election (much like his last-minute scheme to lower state electricity rates by buying the huge Lilco utility). Says Lee Miringoff of Marist College, one of many pollsters who have chronicled a Pataki lead of about 44% to 40%: "Cuomo has a problem: he's running on his past record. Pataki, on the other hand, has no appreciable past...