A Little Dopp Will Do You

Darren Dopp may be the thorn in Gov. Spitzer's side that may eventually do Spitzer in, but Spitzer is looking to achieve something that few New York politicians have managed to accomplish in the history of the state. He's gone from having polls that show him with an approval rating above 70% to one whose approval is currently 25% in the span of less than a year.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to provide illegal immigrants with driver’s licenses has sunk his favorability rating to an all-time low of 41 percent, and has left only 25 percent of voters planning to re-elect him, according to a poll the Siena Research Institute released Tuesday.

Forty-six percent had an unfavorable opinion of Spitzer, and 49 percent said they would “prefer someone else” as the next governor. Last month, 54 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of the governor.

“Eliot Spitzer’s standing with voters has fallen faster and further than any politician in recent New York history,” Siena spokesman Steven Greenberg said in a written statement. “Everything may not have changed on day one but from the voters’ perspective, everything about Governor Spitzer changed in year one.”

And it's all self-inflicted.

This is the guy who was seen as the future of the Democrats in New York?

I don't think it's the kind of future that the party envisioned.

His antics have been radioactive. Just ask Hillary.

UPDATE:
And like that, Spitzer's illegal alien drivers license plan is toast (HT: Hot Air.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to abandon a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, officials familiar with the decision told The Associated Press Tuesday night.

The governor is due to meet Wednesday morning with New York's congressional delegation, many of whom openly oppose the program. Debate over the issue also has spilled into New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.

The governor's office signaled to New York lawmakers Tuesday that Spitzer will say at the meeting that he is shelving the plan and that immigration is a federal issue to be handled by Washington, according to congressional aides who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.

I have no doubt that this was timed to give cover to Hillary considering the mess that Spitzer made for her campaign. He might revisit this some time down the road, but I doubt that they'll go far. Most people simply do not want to provide illegal aliens with benefits and privileges that citizens can be hard pressed to obtain.