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Delgado leads Faso in poll of older 19th Congressional District voters

Oct 04, 2018 12:33 am
Ryan Santistevan reports in the Poughkeepsie Journal that Democrat Antonio Delgado leads Republican incumbent John Faso among older voters, according to a new poll of people over 50-years-old in New York's 19th Congressional District. The American Association of Retired Persons commissioned the poll from Alan Newman Research, who polled 610 registered voters between Sept. 6-16. Delgado led 43 percent to Faso's 36 percent in the poll. Healthcare costs and the future of Social Security and Medicare were the leading issues among poll respondents. After that, 77 percent of respondents polled were worried about the social and political divisions in the country, according to the results. As for Congress, of the over-50 voters polled here, 61 percent disapprove of Congressional Republicans, 55 percent disapprove of Congressional Democrats, and 54 percent disapprove of President Donald Trump's performance. Read the full story in the Poughkeepsie Journal.