Quinnipiac: Mayoral race wide open, and New Yorkers love term limits
Two key findings in the new Quinnipiac poll: one, the leading contender for the 2009 mayoral race is the term-limited incumbent (38%), and two, New Yorkers overwhelmingly approve of the concept of term limits in general (72%) and for the Bloomberg mayoralty in particular (56%).
So there's an element of schizophrenia in these results.
Asked about the actual or likely candidates to fill Bloomberg's seat on his departure, the field is remarkably evenly balanced: Ray Kelly barely leads at 12%, Marty Markowitz comes in at 11%, Congressman Weiner is next at 10%, Christine Quinn and William Thompson round out the pack at 7%. Given the poll's margin of error of 3.1%, that's substantially a five-way statistical tie (Avella and Carrion, also looking at the top spot, didn't register. Update: Duh. Carrion is running for Controller.).
So look to these five to begin to distinguish themselves. As things stand right now, any of them could be your next mayor.
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2009 Elections | Michael Bloomberg
Inevitable
Submitted by mole333 on 16 July 2008 - 12:25pm.
It was inevitable that our candidates would be the two New Yorkers...what. You mean it WASN'T inevitable????
Somebody needs to update his files
Adolfo Carrion isn't running for mayor, he's running for comptroller. He struck a deal last year with Bill Thompson.
On another subject, nobody who knows anything cares about this poll. Remember, 16 months before the 2008 presidential election the runaway leaders were Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani -- and that worked out sooooo well for both of them.