NYC Mayor's race: Bloomberg leads all challengers (Quinnipiac)

[Sam Spade]

Sort of backs up what Marist polled a week or two ago that I posted here. 

Looks like Marist pushed some more undecideds to pick a candidate, but fundamentally the numbers aren't very different.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11370.xml?ReleaseID=681

Against the major Democrat candidates:

Bloomberg 47%, Freddy Ferrer 38%
Bloomberg 43%, Virginia Fields 38%
Bloomberg 44%, Anthony Weiner 32%
Bloomberg 42%, Gifford Miller 35%

Approval rating:  47% approve, 47% disapprove.

In the Democrat primary, the numbers are:

Ferrer 27%, Fields 23%, Weiner 13%, Miller 11%.

[Sam Spade]

Ferrer? A Hispanic I reckon? What sort of Hispanic - Puertorican? Never heard of any of these Dems save Queens congressman Anthony Weiner, btw. City politicians or is anybody in the race who used to be in state politics? (No other congressmen, obviously, I'd have noticed.)

Ferrer is Puerto Rican (dominant Hispanic group in NYC) and has run for mayor a number of times.

Virginia Fields is black and is the Borough President of Manhattan.

Gifford Miller is white and is the Speaker of the City Council.

Those are basically the main candidates.