{"id":321331,"date":"2026-08-14T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321331\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:02:18","slug":"66-of-jewish-new-yorkers-oppose-mamdani-75-against-democratic-socialists-of-america-new-poll-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321331\/","title":{"rendered":"66% of Jewish New Yorkers Oppose Mamdani, 75% Against Democratic Socialists of America, New Poll Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3840px-midtown-manhattan-skyline-from-the-one-world-observatory-new-york-city.jpg\" alt=\"The Midtown Manhattan skyline from the One World Observatory of the Empire State Building, in New York City, April 17, 2026. Credit: Christian David via Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2560\"\/>The Midtown Manhattan skyline from the One World Observatory of the Empire State Building, in New York City, April 17. (Christian David via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<p>By JNS Staff<\/p>\n<p>Jewish New Yorkers disapprove of Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, 66% to 26%, and 75% of them don\u2019t agree with the Democratic Socialists of America, compared to 17% who approve of it, according to a new Siena University Poll of 811 likely gubernatorial voters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sri.siena.edu\/2026\/08\/12\/siena-poll-of-likely-new-york-state-voters-hochul-49-blakeman-39\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">poll<\/a>, which was conducted between Aug. 3 and 6, found that 43% of likely N.Y. gubernatorial voters, including 67% of Democrats, think that the state is on the right track, compared to 47%, including 86% of Republicans, who think it\u2019s going in the wrong direction. More than half (55%) of independents think the state is on the wrong track.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Jewish voters (51%) said the state is headed in the wrong direction, with 39% saying it is on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>Jews made up 8% of those polled, or 64 or 65 respondents.<\/p>\n<p>While 53% of Jewish New Yorkers said that the country\u2019s best years are ahead of it, and 39% said behind it, they felt differently about New York. Just 42% of Jewish New Yorkers said it\u2019s best years were ahead, and 36% said behind it.<\/p>\n<p>In the race for the governor\u2019s mansion, Jews preferred Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, to Bruce Blakeman, the Republican, by 49% to 42%. Jews preferred state attorney general Letitia James, a Democrat, to Republican Saritha Komatireddy 61% to 28%, per the poll.<\/p>\n<p>But Jewish New Yorkers thought that Blakeman was more likely to keep New Yorkers safe than Hochul would by a margin of 48% to 44%.<\/p>\n<p>If elections for Congress were held today, 52% of Jewish New Yorkers said they would vote for a Democrat and 41% said a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Weighted portions of the poll had a margin-of-error of plus-or-minus 4.6 percentage points, and other parts had a margin-of-error of plus-or-minus 4.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/jns.org\/syndication\/pixel?post_id=0000019f-f80c-db3b-adff-f9ae24210000&amp;canonical=https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/u-s-news\/66-of-jewish-new-yorkers-oppose-mamdani-75-against-democratic-socialists-of-america-new-poll-suggests\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Midtown Manhattan skyline from the One World Observatory of the Empire State Building, in New York City,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1626,858,1091,3932,9113,398,75,84,83,9,24,8783,63,115731,53400,82],"class_list":["post-321331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-congress","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-gov-kathy-hochul","tag-jewish","tag-letitia-james","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-yorkers","tag-nyc","tag-saritha-komatireddy","tag-siena-university-poll","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}