Bloomberg, Thompson Poll Gap Narrows As Election Looms

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger spent the final day of the campaign shoring up support and readying their get-out-the-vote forces.

Bloomberg on Monday greeted voters on the Staten Island ferry and then toured small businesses in every borough. City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. campaigned in Harlem and then went to Chinatown.

A new poll shows Bloomberg's lead has shrunk. The Quinnipiac (KWIH'-nih-pee-ak) University survey finds Thompson 12 points behind, down from 18 points.

The poll says 50 percent support Bloomberg, while 38 percent back Thompson. About 10 percent were undecided. The poll of 1,360 likely voters was conducted Oct. 29 to Nov. 1 and had a sampling error margin of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

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[anfractuous]

Bloomberg for Mayor - because everyone needs a hobby.

[argentino]

to paraphrase that great exponent of human rights - hugo chavez:

"thompson as mayor would be more dangerous than a monkey with a razor blade"...

[bzb]

And Bloomberg is dangerous for the middle-class.

[argentino]

and your inferiority complex is fully justified...

[Morganster]

And is there some reason why you have to use a metaphor involving a monkey? Or are you just revealing your real feelings about Mr. Thompson's background?

[Morganster]

I have no intention of voting for the Emperor for an ILLEGAL third term. The voters of NY spoke TWICE, that we did NOT want any Mayor serving more than 2 terms. But the Emperor decides HE is more important than the millions of NYers and overturns the will of the people to suit him!

The City has gotten filthier, crime is rising, there are more homeless people, graffiti is coming back and he keeps harassing NYers HIS will; while creating photo ops for himself.

Example: He turned the ceremony to honor Captain Sullenberger into a shameless promotion for himself.

But then again, Mike has never had a clue how to handle himself in he presence of a true heroes. He has treated the true heros of 9/11 despicably --- denying disability pensions to dying emergency workers; while he has no compunction of spending 100 MILLION dollars for his campaign.

[yogidad]

Democracy does not flourish in NYC. New York has more election law lawsuits than the entire rest of the country combined. Maybe you've never noticed but virtually all democrats get knocked off the ballot who are not incumbents. I don't think you understand the party boss system or your city.
Bloomberg tried to change that and the voters (always following the NY Times) voted it down. So if the voters don't care - why should he? Meanwhile the financially insecure NY Times is dependent on the City Council for a yearly tax break of $4 mil (?) - so what can they really say against incumbents or the council?
Bloomberg needed the assistance of the entire council to end term limits - where is the anger against them? At least Bloomberg is competent - Thompson is not competent and he is part of the party-boss system that knocks insurgent democrats off the ballot and produced the council that ended term limits.

[LHB58]

I used to love NYC back in the 70s and early 80s, when you could still hear echoes of The Velvet Undergound if you listened hard enough. Now, it's like some miserable Disney Universe theme park. I knew that The City had gone down the tubes when a prohibition against smoking in bars was passed under Bloomberg, and there were no reports of rioting in the streets. What a pale shadow of it's former self NYC has become.

[EminemsRevenge]

There's been no sound of the Velvet Underground since Giuliani razed the city...and the reason Bloomberg is riding on this new wave of apathy is because the PRESS has done nothing to keep him in check!

THIS STORY http://forumnyc.com/topic/30489-mta-licensed-to-kill/ was only an aside in one of the free papers, and one can only hope that some kid coming out of journalism school will do a little INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING and find out WHY every billionaire in the world LO$T MONEY...everyone except Bloomberg.

Sounds like Bloomie been getting kickbacks to me

[argentino]

clueless & clueless...

[dct1999]

I will be at the polls in approximately three hours and I will NOT be voting for this hypocritical, egomaniacal, clueless p...o...s.

[FHTB]

Bloomie's idiotic shenanigans drove me out of the City I once loved...now I still work but don't live there and I can notice how much the City has deteriorated from a vibrant, fun place into a place that resembles any other non-interesting urban center...endlessly hideous new buildings that do not serve anyone except his corporate buddies and legions of high rolling yuppies. The highest number of homeless in years...filthy streets...more rats than I have seen in 20 years...

[BrooklynChef]

I have voted for Bloomberg twice. Tomorrow will be 3. He has done an outstanding job. Why would anyone want to waste 4 years with Thompson. He would be another Dinkins. (that is not a racial comment). Bloomberg has maintained the decreasing crime rate through an economic crisis (That is just unheard of)

[voltage356]

He has done an outstanding job. Like what stole Mark Green idea for 311.



http://www.observer.com/3595/mark-greens-311-story

[FHTB]

He would be another Dinkins. (that is not a racial comment).

Interesting that you should make that "racist" qualification...why make a point of it???

[FHTB]

Like voting for Bush twice...dumb, first time, insane, the second, the third? Anyone who does vote for him needs to go to jail...with him.

[ranchero42]

Whodathunkit! Now everyone will want Jackie Mason to headline at their campaign!

[jesstickles]

NO MORE BLOOMBERG!­!!!bloombe­rgs backhouse slimy political maneuvering to overturn term limits is nothing short of deplorable ASSAULT on democracy... what if W would have said im gunna run for prez in 08
cuz were still in danger....AWFUL. thats exactly what bloomberg and NEO CON GIULIANI are doing.....BLOOMBERG still gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to the GOP(!!!???­!!)....and we are supposed to be the smart city........
if this man wins again we will try to finish his plan of sanitizing, commercializing and utterly gentrifying NYC....ridding it of all poor , middle class brown and black people....­.....disgu­sting.VOTE HIM OUT!!!

[Bitsko]

My wife, myself, and many of our friends are looking forward to voting this character out of office tomorrow.

[Morganster]

A BIG Co-Sign there, Bitsko!

I'm also extremely tired of the harassment I've experienced at home from Bloomberg. In the last 2 weeks I've received SEVENTEEN phone calls from his campaign,

The last one was a recording of him speaking Spanish -- He has spent 7 years being tutored to speak the language . . . He should definitely get his money back . . . his Spanish was totally unintelligible!

[robjh1]

If it's not broken you don't fix it. I am sure there are those who preach term limit that is fine. What I can't understand are those people who complain about candidates being beholden to special interest groups and the like. When you get a candidate who can fund his own campaign these same people complain and say the election is being bought. What the freak do you want?????? You are never satisfied. I'd rather have a candidate beholden to no one then special interest groups. What other way to have it. Even grassroot campaigns are beholden to some group.

All the way to City Hall Mayor Bloomberg. We need to keep the City moving forward. Perhaps (though I doubt right now) someone else can do a good job, but I don't want to risk it. Keep Bloomberg where he is. Keep the City safe and moving forward.

"and we are not saved...

[LHB58]

It's a sad day when someone who lives in New York City is concerned about "keeping the City safe and moving forward." You might as well live in Minneapolis. What happened to the City that King Crimson once rightly described as "a DANGEROUS place?"

[robjh1]

Even sadder day when people think a City the size of NYC should be crime ridden. Just goes to show some people do like the element of danger and unsafety though they cry they don't.

"and we are not saved..."

[Terri Walsh]

Term limts Bloomie. Term limits. NYC will can and will prosper without you, as will Democracy.