Four months after Mayor de Blasio’s rebound in the polls suggested he had turned a corner and was on his way to being re-elected next year, he’s skidded off the road due to the torrent of negative publicity about investigations of corruption involving both high-ranking NYPD officials and his own fund-raising practices, according to a Quinnipiac Poll released May 24.
Back in January, a survey by that organization showed a nine-point swing in his job-approval rating, with 50 percent giving him positive marks while 42 percent disagreed. Last week, however, the numbers virtually flipped, with 42 percent approving while 51 percent gave him a thumbs-down among 1,038 city voters.
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