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Mayor Rob Ford's approval rating still seems to be bulletproof, according to a new poll.
A Forum Research poll provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun Tuesday found Ford's approval rating is at 46% -- that's little change from a poll last month that pegged the mayor's approval rating at 47%.
However, around 54% of those polled disapprove of the job Ford is doing.
And when it comes to issues that have been in the news lately, the majority of those residents polled Monday agree with Ford's stance -- except for his opposition to safe injection sites.
" The mayor's approval is as high as we've measured it, except right after the election, and he's championing some policies which are popular with Torontonians," Forum president Lorne Bozinoff said in a statement Tuesday. "They may not be big wins, except for the Scarborough subway, but they'll be remembered."
Ford walked out of this month's council meeting heralding a big win when it comes to council supporting extending the Bloor-Danforth line into Scarborough.
That Scarborough subway vote doesn't seem to have caused a bump in his approval rating, but it seems to have helped keep it steady despite Ford being plagued by crack cocaine allegations earlier this year.
According to the Forum poll, Ford's approval rating is high-e st among older residents, poorer residents and Scarborough residents (around 60%). Although Ford lost a fight at council to cut the number of council seats from 44 to 22, the poll found around 58% support slashing council in half, while only 27% were against the idea.
Most residents polled (55%) now agree with Ford that the land transfer tax should be reduced by 10% rather than cancelling it entirely.
Around 45% want to cut the tax outright, while 41% think eliminating the land transfer tax is a bad idea.
Ford rolled out a city pilot project last week to paint curbs red in an effort to tell drivers where not to park.
The poll found 74% of residents like the red curb idea. Around 16% disapproved of the red curb idea and 10% didn't know.
Around 51% of Toronto residents approve of the idea of a safe injection site in downtown Toronto.
While Ford has balked at the idea, only 36% of those polled disapproved and 13% had no opinion.
The poll also found around 86% of those polled think the city's tattoo parlours should be licensed -- just 5% disagreed with the idea and 9% said they had no opinion.
The poll was an interactive voice response phone survey of 1,368 residents.
Forum considers the results accurate plus or minus 3%, 19 times out of 20.
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/31/mayor-rob-fords-approval-rating-remains-steady
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