Vote With Your Annoyance

Setting aside the way the question was worded — after all, isn’t all advertising basically “annoying”? — there’s an opening here, too:

The poll of 1,290 registered voters, conducted Aug. 18-24, found that nearly 80% have seen the mayor’s TV commercials.

Those who saw the commercials were asked if they were annoying or informative, and 47% said annoying, 41% informative and the rest didn’t know or wouldn’t say.

Asked if the ads made it more or less likely they would vote for Bloomberg, 18% said less likely, 15% said more likely, 64% said no difference and 3% didn’t know or wouldn’t say.

“Mayor Mike might be wasting his money on that zillion-dollar TV buy,” said Quinnipiac polling director Maurice Carroll.