Siena Poll: Focus On The Economy, Andrew Cuomo! Please! UPDATED

 WHAT WAS THAT OLD CLINTON CAMPAIGN THEME??   "IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID"   Andrew gets it...............

 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

By Celeste Katz

Today's new Siena Poll is a real grab-bag, but headlining the survey are New Yorker's thoughts on the economy -- and how Governor-elect Cuomo should tackle it, starting with his inagural address:

Get your motor running, Goveror-Elect.

"When it comes to Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s upcoming Inaugural Address, two-thirds of voters think the primary topics should be fiscal, with 44% saying he should focus on revitalizing the state’s economy and 22% suggesting the focus be on resolving the state’s budget crisis. Similarly, when asked what ‘gift’ they would put under Cuomo’s Christmas tree if they could play Santa Claus, nearly one-third of voters would give a revitalized upstate economy and another 29% would give a balanced state budget with no new taxes."
UPDATE: Cuomo responds to the poll in a statement: "This morning's Siena Poll affirms what we drove as an agenda for the state during the campaign and since the election. The people of the state by overwhelming margins want the legislature to pass a property tax cap for tax relief, get our fiscal house in order so we can attract new businesses and create jobs across the state, and impose more transparency by disclosing their outside incomes. We worked to educate voters over the past year on these key issues and will continue to communicate with the people of the State of New York. Albany will change when the people demand change because the best force for reform is an engaged citizenry."
There's a lot of stuff here, so I'll so this bullet-style for our collective sanity. Full crosstabs after the jump.

• A majority of voters oppose raises for state judges and more than two-thirds oppose raises for state legislators.
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• Nearly three-quarters of voters oppose cutting education by $1 billion to help close the deficit, more than two-thirds oppose cutting Medicaid and health care by $1 billion, however, increasing income tax rates on million dollar earners has the support of nearly three-quarters of voters.
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• New York voters are currently divided on whether they would re-elect President Barack Obama, with only 43% saying they are prepared to re-elect him and 47% preferring ‘someone else.’ Obama currently has the lowest favorability rating among registered New York voters since he’s taken office, with 55% having a favorable view of him and 42% having an unfavorable view. For the first time a majority of independent voters now view Obama unfavorably.
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• Cuomo is viewed favorably by 66% of voters and unfavorably by 25%... When asked to rate the job he has done so far as Governor-elect, seven percent of voters rate it as excellent, 36% rate it as good, 33% say fair and six percent say poor.
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• By a 52-43% margin, voters oppose giving raises to state judges, and by an overwhelming 69-27% margin they oppose raises for state legislators, despite the fact that these officials have not had raises in more than a decade.
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• By a better than three-to-one margin, voters say they would vote against cutting education by $1 billion to help close the state’s $9 billion budget deficit. By a slightly smaller, but still overwhelming margin, they would also vote against cutting Medicaid and health care by $1 billion to help balance the budget.
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• A majority of voters say they would vote in favor of requiring legislators to disclose all outside income, for a property tax cap, to allow the use of medical marijuana, to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores, and to legalize same sex marriages. They would vote down a proposed soda tax.
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• Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has a nearly two-to-one negative favorability rating, with 22% of voters viewing him favorably and 42% him unfavorably. Sen. Dean Skelos also has a two-to-one negative favorability rating, 9-19 percent, but he is unknown to 71% of voters. Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and Assembly GOP Leader Brian Kolb are both unknown to more than three-quarters of voters.
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• By nearly identical two-to-one margins, voters say the state and the nation are headed in the wrong direction.
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• By a nearly two-to-one margin, voters have an unfavorable view of Gov. Paterson, 32-61%. Just 17% of voters think he’s doing an excellent or good job as Governor, while 82% say he’s doing a fair or poor job.