Poll: Majority Of Long Islanders Support Lighthouse Project
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Poll Shows Majority Of Voters
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A “solid majority of Long Islanders say they support” Islanders Owner Charles Wang’s $3.7B Lighthouse project, a mixed-use development that would include a renovated Nassau Coliseum, according to poll data cited by Eden Laikin of NEWSDAY. Fifty-one percent of the 1,037 registered voters polled in Nassau and Suffolk counties “want the project built;” 23% do not, and 23% “didn’t know or had no opinion.” Support for the project “appears widespread -- with majorities of blacks, whites, Republicans and Democrats backing it.” Black respondents and men “came across as the staunchest Lighthouse backers," with 61% of each group in favor. Only 17% of blacks and 21% of men “were opposed.” Overall, 51% of whites “favor the project.” Women were “one of the few groups where supporters were less than” 50%. The poll was conducted by Newsday, News 12 Long Island and the Siena Research Institute (NEWSDAY, 10/14).
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