At this morning's press conference, which focused on the city budget and city attorney Pete Holmes' lawsuit to avert a vote on three city-state agreements on the deep-bore tunnel, reporters asked Mayor Mike McGinn how he interpreted a poll released yesterday in which more than two-thirds of voters disapproved of McGinn's performance, and that even those who agreed with him on the deep-bore tunnel still didn't think he was doing a good job as mayor.

McGinn breezily dismissed the results, noting that when he ran for office, no one, including pollsters, thought he stood a chance.

"People have lots of opinions on lots of different topics, and that's expected and appropriate," McGinn said. "When I ran, if you looked at the polls, people would think I didn't have any chance" of winning. "And I just kept on listening, kept on working hard, and [kept on] looking at the right things."

"When you ask hard questions it's going to create a little controversy and that's what I believe I was elected to do---ask the hard questions," McGinn said.