TORONTO

Rob Ford’s job approval rating hasn’t been cracked by his ongoing drug scandal but most Torontonians believe the allegations swirling around the mayor, according to a new poll.

The Forum Research poll provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun shows Ford’s approval rating remains at 42% — the same level it was last month after he admitted smoking crack cocaine and bought illegal drugs while in office.

The poll conducted Monday found 42% approve of the job Ford is doing as mayor of Toronto while 58% registered their disapproval.

That approval rating comes despite the fact council has stripped Ford of most of his powers and with the release last week of unredacted portions of a police document featuring more shocking allegations about the mayor.

Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff predicted Ford’s approval rating won’t dip below 42% unless there was a major new development in the scandal.

“I think that is his floor, I think he is going to grow that position,” Bozinoff said Tuesday.

Around 81% of Toronto residents polled believe the allegations swirling around the mayor are true and 50% think they are “completely true.” Only 1% of those polled thought the allegations were “completely false.”

The poll found 28% of those who voted for Ford in 2010 think the allegations are “completely true” along with 27% of those who approve of the job he is doing and 28% of those who say they will vote for him in 2014.

“I’m pretty sure that Ford Nation actually believes most of these allegations and they don’t care,” Bozinoff said. “It is not like they are in denial.”

Only around 24% of those polled thought Ford had “adequately” addressed the drug-use allegations while 64% disagreed and 12% didn’t know.

Around 60% of those polled believe Ford should resign and only 33% said they would vote for the mayor in the 2014 election — those numbers were unchanged from the last Forum poll in November.

The poll was an interactive voice response telephone survey of 898 residents. Forum considers the results accurate within 3%, 19 times out of 20.