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The percentage of voters who approve of the performance of beleaguered New York Gov. David Paterson has fallen to 30 percent with 54 percent disapproving of the job he is doing, according to a New York Times/Cornell University/NY1 poll conducted May 29-June 3. That's a dramatic reversal from his approval-to-disapproval ration in June 2008, which was 49 percent to 16 percent.

Seventy-one percent said someone else besides Paterson should be elected to a full-term in 2010.

He scores 27 percent or lower when respondents were asked if he cares about the needs of people like themselves, his ability to deal with a serious crisis, his ability to bring jobs to New York, his capacity for working with lawmakers to balance the budget, or whether he could reduce property taxes.