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Seventy-one percent of respondents said they would prefer to vote for someone else rather than Paterson, and the governor continued to perform poorly in hypothetical primary and general election match-ups.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo led Paterson in a primary contest, 64 percent to 11 percent, with Nassau County Executive [Tom Suozzi] (http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/CountyExecutive/index).html garnering the support of 8 percent of respondents and 33 percent undecided. In a general election, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, would defeat Paterson 56 percent to 29 percent, the poll showed, while Cuomo would defeat Giuliani 53 percent to 39 percent. Cuomo had highest favorable and the lowest unfavorable ratings of any potential candidate that was polled.

Adding insult to injury, the poll found that voters would prefer former governors Democrat Mario Cuomo, Republican George Pataki and even Paterson's Democratic predecessor Eliot Spitzer, who left the governor's mansion in disgrace in 2008 due to a sex scandal, to be New York's current governor over Paterson.

-- Emily Cadei