NYC'13: Congrats to Mayor de Blasio

[Beet]

Stop-and-frisk down 50% while murder rate drops to 60-year low

What a horrible mayor Bloomberg has been!

[© tweed]

odds to win from a Sportsbook:


Christine Quinn 3/2
Anthony Weiner 3/1
William Thompson 6/1
Bill de Blasio 8/1
Joseph Lhota 10/1
others longer...

http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/politics/us-politics/2013-new-york-city-mayoral-election-e216572240

[Beet]

NYC posts biggest 6-month job growth since 2000

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130718/ECONOMY/130719880

[hopper]

If Weiner got elected mayor of NYC he just might be a loose cannon at times in a leadership type of role. The guy was just a US House member he wasn't in any type of leadership role there. I know he wants actually the job of being Mayor of NYC he just not running to run though. He will be passionate(maybe too passionate-i.e. loose cannon) about the job on a day in day out basis.

[RogueBeaver]

Carlos Danger's press conference starting now.

[SteveRogers]

Yeah... I don't think you can come back from a sex scandal while you're still clearly doing the sex scandal.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

...moron.

There's no other word for it.

[free my dawg]

Well there goes that.

[Zioneer]

I guess Weiner's campaign has gone limp.

[Napoleon]

Carlos Danger reminds me of Ron Mexico.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Well apparently his wife is still standing with him, so...

[Keystone Phil]

Yeah... I don't think you can come back from a sex scandal while you're still clearly doing the sex scandal.

This is what pisses me off more than anything. And I know people that don't think there is anything wrong with that. The guy admits wrong doing, claims he's seeking help....then went back to doing this right after resigning.

[Oakvale]

Anthony Weiner's political career is dead, long live Carlos Danger's political career.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm not seeing anyone defending him yet? did the right shoot its self-righteous %*$* too soon?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I guess Weiner's campaign has gone limp.

Ugh, I came here to make that joke.

[Lief 🗽]

New Q-poll:

First Round:
Weiner 26%
Quinn 22%
Thompson 20%
De Blasio 15%
Liu 7%
Albanese 1%

Thompson would beat Quinn and Weiner by 9% and 11% in a run-off. In a Quinn-Weiner runoff, Quinn leads 46 to 44.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=1927

[xavier110]

Get ready for a Thompson surge! Lol, the future mayor of New York.

[Eraserhead]

Did anyone really think Weiner had stopped doing it? The only question was if he could hide it better. I guess not.

This could be de Blasio's moment. (A man can dream.)

[Lief 🗽]

In the Q-poll, if Weiner drops out it's Quinn 30%, Thompson 26%, de Blasio 21%. So he'd be in with a decent shot. Minority candidates usually do better than their polling in NYC elections, so a Thompson-de Blasio runoff would be interesting (and possible).

[Lief 🗽]

De Blasiomentum, according to Marist!

Among likely Democratic primary voters:

Quinn 26%
De Blasio 17%
Weiner 16%
Thompson 15%
Liu 7%

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/wsjpoll0725.pdf

[RogueBeaver]

Question for NYers: who do you think is more likely to make the runoff- De Blasio or Thompson?

[traininthedistance]

Question for NYers: who do you think is more likely to make the runoff- De Blasio or Thompson?

I really don't know.  They've been basically even all campaign.

[Maxwell]

I think Bill Thompson is the big winner of all this.

[RedSLC]

I think Bill Thompson is the big winner of all this.

I hope either he or De Blasio is by the end of this.

[Lief 🗽]

Unless Weiner magically recovers, I think Thompson is basically guaranteed to get into the runoff off the strength of the black vote (and even based on polls pre-second scandal, Thompson still had a good shot of coming in second). I think the question is whether or not de Blasio can pick up enough of the Weiner vote to challenge Quinn for the other spot (probably not, but we can hope).