From NBC:
Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has surged ahead of his opponents in a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal poll, transforming himself in just a few weeks from disgraced has-been to mayoral front-runner.
Weiner, who entered the race two years after resigning his congressional seat amid a sexting scandal, now leads City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the crowded Democratic primary, setting up a new phase in what could end up being a remarkable political comeback.
Weiner leads Quinn 25 percent to 20 percent among registered Democrats, the poll by Marist found. That's a flip-flop from the last survey in May, when Quinn, the longtime front-runner, led Weiner 24 percent to 19 percent.
Just as telling is the number of registered New York voters who said they might vote for Weiner. Forty-nine percent said they’d consider it, up from 40 percent two months ago, before Weiner entered the race. Those who said they wouldn’t consider voting for him dropped from 52 percent to 45 percent.
The next closest contender in the Democratic primary is former Comptroller Bill Thompson, with 13 percent of registered Democrats saying they'd vote for him, up 2 percentage points from May. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio follows with 10 percent, who dropped 2 points. Then comes current Comptroller John Liu at 8 percent, Staten Island minister Erick Salgado at 2 percent and former City Councilman Sal Albanese at 1 percent.
17 comments:
This will certainly get him pumped up.
Anthony Weiner will rise again!
The field has set a low bar for Mr. Weiner. Don't get your hopes up yet Anthony but you just might do it.
LOL!
I thought he'd already showed off his "pole" online.
Now another poll?
If Weiner is smart, he'd pole vault out of the race....
unless he intends to change his name to Felix (little cocktail) Frankfurter to confuse us.
From what I've heard "it" didn't "rise" to very much.
When most of who's running is pond scum--
it doesn't take very much to rise to the top.
Whoever wins--get out the pool skimmer!
I'm not voting for mayor.
It's down to the other slots on the ballot for me.
He can hold his own against all comers.
It is a sad commentary on the primary electorate that Sal Albanese, who has been a thoughtful and credible addition to the race, was not ahead of even Erick Salgado.
What a choice! Weiner v. Quimm
And the primary campaign has more than two months to go. There are so many Weiner double entendres yet to come!
Ant-knee would make a great Mayor. More free shit for everyone.
Astounding that 8% of New Yorkers are evil enough to support John (son-of-a-bank-thief) Liu.
That is just a disgrace to humanity.
If you're one of the 47% that don't pay taxes and are on the public for food stamps, phones, earned income tax credit etc, who cares who wins.
Only those that have a skin in the game care.
the guy is a buffoon and a joke which is what a lot of our politicians are.
chrissy is dangerous and annoying.
after rudy and mike its about time we take a break and have some fun with city government.
my vote is with weiner.
And this on Drudge -
Weiner's lead peters out...
It's becoming an international joke.
Weiner reminds me of Glenn Quagmire.
ABQ!!
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