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Mayor Rob Ford’s citywide approval rating has fallen, nowhere more dramatically than in his home turf of Etobicoke, a new poll by Forum Research reveals.

Four in 10 Toronto residents surveyed said they approved of the job Mr. Ford was doing, a drop of seven percentage points since last month. In Etobicoke — where the mayor clashed with a local journalist recently after attempting to buy a slice of public parkland next to his home — Mr. Ford’s rating fell by 15 percentage points, to 33%.

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“I think trying to buy the parkland for himself, chasing a reporter and all that, it’s just more antics,” Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff said Wednesday. “I don’t think it’s mayorly to be doing that type of stuff. It just seems like the old Rob Ford, getting into some kind of trouble.”

The Forum telephone survey of 704 residents was conducted Monday and is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.