Bill de Blasio, Christine Quinn in dead heat for New York mayorship

[brooklynite]

Source: NY Daily News

The latest poll in the fast-moving New York mayoral race has Public Advocate Bill de Blasio neck-and-neck with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The two frontrunners in the Wall Street Journal-NBC-Marist College survey each had the backing of 24% of likely Democratic primary voters, with former Controller Bill Thompson just behind with 18% of the vote.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-quinn-dead-heat-nyc-mayor-poll-article-1.1428345

[hrmjustin]

1. The more I look at De Blasio the more I like the fact he could be our mayor.

The reality is I will likey vote for the person who can beat Quinn in the runoff. We got a month to go and we shall see what happens.

[TomClash]

17. Thompson is ambivalent about stop and frisk

You should factor that in your voting calculations.

Bill D actually tried to stop one when an idiot police officer stopped Jumanne Williams from crossing Atlantic Avenue.

[hrmjustin]

23. The more I look at this race De Blasio looks like he is getting my vote.

[TomClash]

25. FWIW

He is a really good guy. And even after he became a politician, he didn't change much.

Thompson would be my second choice.

[gopiscrap]

2. Go Bill!!!

[branford]

3. I'm a New Yorker, and I'm voting for Bill.

[question everything]

4. I am not a New Yorker, but this morning Katrina vanden Heuvel,

the editor of the Nation, said that de Blaslo is her choice.

She always knows what she is talking about and is worth listening to.

[branford]

5. Quinn is the reason that Bloomberg got his third term.

A vote for Quinn is like a fourth term for Bloomberg.

On September 10, I'm going to pull the lever (actually fill in the tiny, tiny circle) for Bill de Blasio, and then celebrate with a 30 oz. sweet tea from McDonald's.

[JI7]

6. i heard Quinn is pretty much stuck at around 25 percent

she isn't able to get more. her hopes of victory are if the rest of the candidates divide the rest of the support among themselves with none getting more than that.

[hrmjustin]

8. You have to win 40% of the vote in the primary or there is a runoff.

The question is who will be the two that make the runoff. It is possible Thompson and De Blasio go past her and get to the runoff.

[JI7]

10. did Weiner get 40 or close to it before Carlos Danger stuff came out ?

[hrmjustin]

11. He got as high as 25% in one poll but is down to 10% now.

[customerserviceguy]

29. Yes, but he's up to 15%

if you count the expected write-in votes for Carlos Danger.

[hrmjustin]

30. Lol I forgot those votes.

[customerserviceguy]

32. You KNOW some folks won't resist being able to do it.

I sure hope they give us the count!

[hrmjustin]

33. It takes some time but they are required on the SOS website to give all the numbers and names

of who got votes.

[tofuandbeer]

7. If Quinn has Bloomberg behind her (as was suggested here), I doubt she has much to worry about. :(

Expect some dirt.

[hrmjustin]

9. Bloomberg is not popular here anymore.

[tofuandbeer]

12. Cool. I meant the money aspect, though.

But, you're on to something: I know little about NY.

[hrmjustin]

13. The money you are right about but we have a public finance system here.

Quinn, Thompson, and De Blasio have the same amount of money for the most part.

I am leaning towards De Blasio because it would be nice to have a progressive for a change here.

I could also vote for Thompson.

[tofuandbeer]

14. Ah. Okay. Thx. Good luck!

Sounds like an exciting election.

[hrmjustin]

15. It is now because it is a month away. We will have to vote three times.

My mailbox is full of mailers from these people.

[branford]

16. The constant mailers amount to little more than static and refuse at this point.

I cannot wait for this election to be over.

How do you feel about Client No. 9, errr . . . Elliot Spitzer, for Comptroller?

I'll be voting for Scott Stringer. He's far less likely to hire out of state prostitutes. As you can tell, my standards at this point are quite low.

On a more positive note, at least we're not San Diego and stuck with Bob Filner, who actually manages to be more creepy than Carlos Danger and Client No. 9 combined!

[hrmjustin]

22. I am leaning towards Stringer but I expect Spitzer will win.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. i think deblasio has a better chance of winning against lhota

than thompson does. there is something lackluster about thompson

[hrmjustin]

24. De Blasio has his geart in this.

[George II]

18. Headline is misleading, they're in a dead heat for the Democratic nomination, not mayorship!

[KurtNYC]

21. Polls have the Republicans way behind: 49 to 27

with no white knight in sight, the assumption is that the Dem who wins the primary will be a slam dunk for Mayor.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/05/24/poll-republican-candidates-are-in-big-trouble-in-nyc-mayors-race/

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. i really hope that bill ends up being our mayor

[MADem]

26. So one of them is likely to be the D nominee--who is the GOP running?

I haven't kept up...

Would a GOP candidate have a chance in hell? After all, that's how Bloomberg got in the door--he switched from D to R so he wouldn't have to deal with a crowded primary field, and later to I.

[JI7]

27. i have heard it will pretty much go to whoever wins the Dem primary

which is why there is so much attention on the Dem primary.

[MADem]

28. I never thought Bloomberg would win, running as a Republican....

Imagine my surprise! And he managed to hang on to that job for a pretty long time, too!

[customerserviceguy]

31. de Blasio did a really clever ad on the local TV

It features a young man, about high school age, with a really Seventies-looking Afro saying all kinds of nice things about Bill de Blasio, and then concluding, "And I'd still say all this about him, even if he weren't my dad!" Cut to a shot of Bill and the boy walking on a sidewalk, and Bill putting his hand on the smiling boy's shoulder.

It had to appeal to the African-American vote, and I think it coincides with de Blasio's most recent rise in the polls.