State’s 3 top Dems sliding down poll

Voters turned unexpectedly sour on New York politicians this month, with Gov. Cuomo registering his lowest popularity rating since taking office in 2011, according to a poll released Monday.

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand also experienced drops in their popularity figures.

Forty-three percent of voters statewide viewed Cuomo favorably, while 50 percent gave him a thumbs down, the Siena College survey found. That’s almost an exact reversal from January, when the split was 51 percent to 43 percent in Democrat Cuomo’s favor.

His job-performance rating also plummeted to 35 percent, down from 43 percent a month earlier.

“Politically, Cuomo’s ratings drop is across the board, as he fell with Democrats, Republicans and independents,” said pollster Steve Greenberg.

Cuomo senior adviser Rich Azzopardi said “across the board slides” demonstrated the poll was an “outlier,” a polite way of saying it was wrong.

Azzopardi attributed Cuomo’s decreased popularity to a sampling change — a 5 percent drop in black voters questioned, a 6 percent drop in moderate voters queried and a 3 percent increase in conservative voters contacted.

He pointed out that the state Senate and Assembly were also rated lower by voters.

Schumer, the US Senate Democratic leader who has been battling President Trump, barely edged out a positive score at 47 percent to 46 percent — his worst showing ever in a Siena poll.

In January, Schumer was riding high with a rating of 53 percent to 39 percent.

Gillibrand, a Democratic presidential candidate, found herself in the same situation, but with a less dramatic plunge in the numbers. She went from 48 percent positive in January to only 44 percent this month. Her negative rating rose from 31 percent to 34 percent.

Greenberg said Schumer’s partisan fights with Trump and the GOP — including over last month’s partial government shutdown — contributed to a steep drop in his popularity among New York’s right-leaning voters.

“Just before Schumer became US Senate minority leader, he had a 67-23 percent favorability and was far and away the most popular New York pol. At that time, Republicans viewed him favorably 55-37 percent. Today, he has a break-even favorability rating with all voters, and . . . New York Republicans view him unfavorably, 84-15 percent,” Greenberg said.

The Siena poll surveyed 778 registered voters from Feb. 4 to 7. It has a 4.3 percentage-point margin of error.