A new poll from Data for Progress and Citizen Action of New York shared exclusively with City & State found that New Yorkers like the state’s fledgling public campaign finance system and are worried about the impact of big money in politics.

In a survey of 1,067 likely voters conducted between July 1 and July 11, 64% of respondents said they somewhat or strongly supported the small donor matching program that state candidates used for the first time last year. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.

After a brief description of the program’s rules, Democrats offered the highest level of support, with about two-thirds saying they backed it. And even though Republicans had the lowest level of support, a majority of 57% polled still said they approved of the program.

That support dro

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