The voters still love him.
Despite the growing chorus calling for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, a poll released today shows that 56 percent of registered voters in Weiner’s district want him to stay on the job.
The poll surveyed 512 voters living in New York’s 9th Congressional District, which stretches from Queens and into Brooklyn, on Thursday and found that only 33 percent think Weiner should resign.
Twelve percent were not sure.
Weiner told The Post earlier today that he has no plans to resign and is looking forward to returning to work.
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Both Democrats and Republicans in Weiner’s district want him to stay.
The poll found that a whopping 63 percent of Democrats said Weiner should not resign, while 47 percent of Republicans agreed with them.
“Congressman Weiner’s constituents are drawing a line between his ethical conduct and professional judgment. The bottom line — they’re still in his corner on the question of resignation,” said Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “As for his re-election prospects, that’s still very much up in the air.”
Weiner, 46, is up for re-election next year — something that at this point appears to be an uphill battle.
The poll found that while 31 percent of Weiner’s constituents say they would definitely vote “against him,” 30 percent claimed they would vote “for him.”
Another 38 percent said they are undecided, the poll found.
While voters in his district want Weiner to stay, they did have opinions about his conduct.
Forty-six percent of those polled “view the scandal as solely a lapse in personal judgment.”
Only 10 percent think it brings into question “primarily his professional judgment.”
Weiner admitted Monday to sending X-rated photos and racy messages to six women he met on the Internet over the past three years.
After initially lying about it, Weiner was forced to tell the truth after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a series of photos on his website that the lawmaker had sent to one woman.
A whopping 73 percent said Weiner acted unethically but not illegally. Only 11 percent said he broke the law, while nine percent reported that he did nothing wrong.