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Via Politicker: Republic mayoral candidate Joe Lhota’s latest television ad warns New York City will plunge into violence if Bill de Blasio is elected mayor. In the most negative attack of the election season, the ad features chilling images of crime scenes and corpses lying on the ground, and slams Mr. de Blasio’s allegedly “recklessly dangerous agenda on crime,” warning …

“I fear for New York City if Mr. de Blasio gets elected. He just wants to tax everyone to smithereens. You have to be fair to everyone. You have programs that support all of the people of New York. But if you continue to tax what you see as the upper-income brackets, it’s still only going to be providing a …

A poll released today shows Joe Lhota trailing by 50 points. Crazy. But today’s Lhota ad is all about how much he’s like De Blasio. Wut?

Last night I noticed that the Stop Christine Quinn people, having won their years-long crusade, are now retweeting posts from an account called Stop Bill De Blasio.  And the website linked in the account is posting tweets from Stop Christine Quinn. I’m confused.

Unless Bill De Blasio does something spectacularly Weineresque in the next few weeks, New York City is going to have its first Democratic mayor in 20 years. Check out the poll results released today.

UPDATE: My earlier post below may be moot, according to a tweet just published by the New York Times. It’s almost one week after New York City’s mayoral primary and we still don’t know if Bill De Blasio got the 40% needed to avoid a runoff with Bill Thompson. On Sunday, workers continued checking the vote tallies in the lever …

Democratic mayoral leader Bill de Blasio appears to have very narrowly avoided a runoff, having eked out a scant 0.19% more votes than the 40% requirement at this writing. But with 97%  of the precincts having reported, the city’s Board Of Elections announced that it will now count absentee ballots and the paper ballots used yesterday for malfunctioning machines. A …

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New York City’s mayoral primary is tomorrow and the final poll released today shows Bill De Blasio maintaining a 14-point lead at 39%, just one point shy of the cutoff to avoid a runoff. De Blasio, 52, elected four years ago to the citywide watchdog office of public advocate, retains the lead among seven candidates. Former city Comptroller William Thompson …

In an interview with New York Magazine, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg denounced the mayoral campaign of Bill de Blasio as “racist” because he uses his black wife and son in commercials. “He’s making an appeal using his family to gain support,” Bloomberg said. “I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone watching what he’s been doing.” De Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, …

The top line above is the latest poll result in the New York City mayoral race. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has skyrocketed to 43 percent in the latest mayoral race poll, an astonishing climb that puts him past the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. The poll of likely Democratic primary voters from Quinnipiac University released one …

Well, maybe there won’t be a runoff after all. If there was any question that Bill de Blasio is the mayoral race’s new front-runner, there isn’t any more. A new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University has the city’s public advocate with 36 percent of the likely Democratic vote, placing him within reaching distance of avoiding a widely-expected runoff election. The …

Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon, Martha Plimpton, Kathy Najimy, Alan Cummings, Lady Bunny, Cynthia Nixon, Steve Buscemi, Russell Simmons, Chris Noth, and a few more I recognize but can’t name.

Everybody seemed to gang up on new frontrunner Bill De Blasio at last night’s Democratic mayoral debate. Most analysts are saying that Christine Quinn turned in one of her strongest performances, however she continued to slam De Blasio’s wife for allegedly attacking her for not having children, a charge angrily denied by the De Blasio camp, which pointed out that …

A mayoral campaign press conference for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn turned violent yesterday when an anti-Quinn protester slapped openly gay state Sen. Brad Hoylman in the face. The protester, seen above shaking his fist at openly gay former state Sen. Tom Duane, said that he blames Quinn for the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital in the West …

He’s really focusing on stop-and-frisk.

Speaking on his weekly radio address, yesterday New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested fingerprinting the city’s public housing tenants. “What we really should have is fingerprinting to get in. And of course there’s an allegation that some of these apartments aren’t occupied by the people who originally have the lease,” said Mr. Bloomberg during his weekly radio sit-down with …

From the Wall Street Journal: With nine candidates on the Democratic primary ballot, there is next to no chance anyone will win the contest outright, and so the top candidates have focused their efforts on securing a spot in the runoff. While Ms. Quinn has spent most of the race as the front-runner, the poll showed she will be the …