Poll: New York voters support anti-Wall Street protesters occupying public parks

Most New York voters don’t believe the Occupy Wall Street movement has a clear message or represents 99 percent of Americans, but they support the demonstrators’ right to stay in public parks around the clock, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The Siena College poll showed 45 percent of voters statewide have a favorable view of the movement, whose encampment was removed from a New York City park Tuesday by police. Forty-four percent have an unfavorable view, up six percentage points from a month earlier. However, 57 percent of those polled said the demonstrators should be able to stay in the parks all day and all night, while 40 percent say they should not.

“Voters clearly support First Amendment rights,” Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.

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