Governor Kathy Hochul’s favorability and job approval ratings both dipped in February, according to the findings of a Siena College poll released Monday.
Support for some of the measures Hochul would like to include in the upcoming state budget, which is due April 1, proved to be mixed, based on poll results.
Survey respondents backed her plan to lift cigarette taxes by $1 a pack by a margin of 62% in support to 33% opposed. Respondents, however, were less receptive to her call to expand the state’s film tax credit program, with 48% opposed to it and 41% in support. They also didn’t care for a proposal that would ban items such as gas stoves in all new construction by 2028, with 53% in opposition to 39% in support.
Hochul’s favorability rating ticked down from 48-42% in January to 46-43% in February. Respondents by a 56% to 40% margin said they approved of the job she is doing in February, although there was a higher percentage of people who disapproved of her performance this month compared to January. For instance, in January, 36% disapproved the job she was doing as opposed to 40%.