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2009-08-28 Home Front: Politix

Mayor Bloomberg's constant 'zillion-dollar TV buy' annoying voters: Poll

Voters are annoyed by Mayor Bloomberg's nonstop TV ads, but he's still steamrolling toward a third term, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.

His job approval rating is 66% favorable, up 3% from last month.

And if the general election were held today, he would trounce his likely Democratic opponent, Controller William Thompson, by 15 points - up five points from the prior poll.

The poll of 1,290 registered voters, conducted Aug. 18-24, found that nearly 80% have seen the mayor's TV commercials.

Those who saw the commercials were asked if they were annoying or informative, and 47% said annoying, 41% informative and the rest didn't know or wouldn't say.

Asked if the ads made it more or less likely they would vote for Bloomberg, 18% said less likely, 15% said more likely, 64% said no difference and 3% didn't know or wouldn't say.

"Mayor Mike might be wasting his money on that zillion-dollar TV buy," said Quinnipiac polling director Maurice Carroll.

Bloomberg, who is paying for his own campaign, spent $36.6 million as of his last disclosure report a month ago, including $12.6 million for TV ads.

There were no changes from a month ago in the Democratic primary races for mayor, controller or public advocate.

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