"But you stupid voters - I'm the GOVERNOR!"

The new polling numbers are out across the Empire State and our Governor Spitzer seems to be LOSING ground as to whether he can convince them that creating fake IDs for illegal aliens in New York will really make the state safer. On the streets today in the New York Post:

October 16, 2007 -- The latest numbers are out on public support for Gov. Spitzer's executive order allowing illegal aliens to ob tain New York state drivers' licenses.

Read 'em and weep, Eliot.

In a Siena College poll released yesterday, 72 percent of New Yorkers oppose the gov's license plan - while only 22 percent support it.

Opposition to Spitzer's plan runs across the board: Even 52 percent of his fellow Democrats think he's wrong.

To underscore that fact, Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco yesterday released a list of 34 Democrats among 200 public officials opposed to the plan - including a former mayor of New York, a county executive, two members of Congress, seven members of the state Legislature and 17 county legislators.

In other words, it's hardly just the "rabid right" that opposes this lunacy, as Spitzer so intemperately claimed last week.

Indeed, a full 64 percent of those polled by Siena agree that the Spitzer proposal would create a national-security risk.

And by a 66-25 percent margin, New Yorkers aren't buying the governor's rationale for the plan: that it would lower insurance rates by reducing the number of unlicensed drivers.

Any way you look at it, those numbers add up to a political disaster for Eliot Spitzer.

The same poll shows his personal approval rating - which stood at an astounding 75 percent when he took office last January - has now dipped sharply, to 54 percent.

And what do New Yorkers think of Spitzer's actual job performance?

For the first time, a clear majority - 55 percent - rated it as poor or just fair. At the start of the year, less than one in five felt that way.