CONTACT: Amy AllenThe Westchester County Association, Inc.
(914) 948-1168aallen@westchester.orgFor Immediate Release
POLL GIVES BALL LEAD OVER KAPLOWITZ
Iona College Survey Finds Many Voters Still Undecided and Anti-Albany Sentiment is Widespread Decision 2010
Debates Are Key to Learn Where CandidatesStand on the Issues
WHITE PLAINS, NY (October 4, 2010)
– A new RNN-TV/Westchester CountyAssociation poll of the closely-watched race for the New York State Senate’s40
th
District shows
Greg Ball
(R) with a lead over
Mike Kaplowitz
(D) (I). Thepoll, conducted by Iona College, also shows a large undecided voting block anda strong anti-Albany sentiment.When asked whom they would vote for, 45% said Ball and 35% said Kaplowitzwith 20% saying that they are undecided.“The large number of undecided voters suggests that both candidates have a lotof ground to cover before election day,” said
Jeanne Zaino
, coordinator of theIona College Poll and a political science professor at the school. “A wild card inthis race is that neither candidate is an incumbent senator. Although Ball iscurrently a member of the State Assembly and Kaplowitz is a member of theWestchester County Board of Legislators, Ball has a reputation as an outsider and frequent critic of his own party, and Kaplowitz has in recent years positionedhimself as a critic of spending by the Democrat-controlled County Legislature. Itwill be interesting to see how their records in their current elected positions areperceived by the independents.”1
The 40
th
Senate District is regarded as one of several key races in determiningthe future balance of the State Senate. The 40
th
includes parts of northernWestchester, all of Putnam and parts of Dutchess.The poll, which has a margin of error of plus/minus 4.1%, was commissioned byRNN-TV in cooperation with the Westchester County Association’s Call to ActionCampaign’s
Decision 2010
. The poll included 10,000 calls to registered votersfrom September 30-October 3. Iona is conducting polling in three key StateSenate Districts in the Westchester area, as well as the U.S. Congressional racethat pits Rep.
John Hall
(D) (WF) against challenger Dr.
Nan Hayworth
(R) (C)(I).The polls are being conducted prior to a series of debates in four key races thatare part of the WCA Call to Action Campaign
Decision 2010
initiative. The firstdebate was a week ago between State Sen.
Andrea-Stewart Cousins
(D) (WF)and her challenger,
Liam McLaughlin
(R) (C) in NY Senate District 35.The schedule for the upcoming
Decision 2010
debates is:
•
October 6, 6 PM: NY State Senate District 40,
Greg Ball
(R) versus
MikeKaplowitz
(D) (I) at Yorktown Stage, 1974 Commerce Street, YorktownHeights.
•
October 13, 6 PM: US Congressional District 19,
John Hall
(D) (WF)versus
Dr.
Nan
Hayworth
(R) (C) at 800 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook.
•
October 20, 6PM: NY State Senate District 37,
Suzi Oppenheimer
(D)(WF) versus
Bob Cohen
(R), (C) (I) at 800 Westchester Ave., RyeBrook.The debates are broadcast on RNN-TV and are moderated by RNN-TV’s
Richard French III
and
Caryn
McBride
, Executive Editor of the Westchester County Business Journal
The results of the Ball-Kaplowitz poll also showed the following:
Please tell us whether you have a favorable or unfavorable view of eachcandidate
.
Greg Ball
Favorable view 44%Unfavorable view 34%Undecided 22%
Mike Kaplowitz
Favorable view 38%2
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