"I was ecstatic, " says Straub, 21, a communications major at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

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Vassar College and Marist College are both in Poughkeepsie and are both growing, which helps the local construction industry.

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Mr. Weiner is the best-known politician in the still-unsettled Democratic field, a poll conducted by NBC New York and Marist College found.

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In the independent survey conducted by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion, 55 percent said they would vote for Cuomo while only 37 would support D'Amato.

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"What we're seeing is largely steady in terms of the overall picture of how New Yorkers are assessing him, " said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

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Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.

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Among other things, the congressman can point to a Marist College poll released Thursday showing that a majority of registered voters in his district -- 56% -- don't believe he should step down.

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This is according to a new poll by Marist College and WNBC which says a McCain-Rice ticket would beat either a Clinton-Obama or an Obama-Clinton combination, 49 to 46 percent and 49 to 44 percent respectively.

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Quinnipiac University and Marist College polls released in the last week have shown him polling behind four fellow Democrats: Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Comptroller William Thompson and former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

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