Spitzer and Weiner Lead in New Poll Because Scandal Brought Name Recognition

[DGuller]

I see that exit polling has de Blasio in the lead with voters saying they want change. Great, more hope and change.

I'm sure he would prove to be more effective than Obama, though.

[garbon]

I hope so.

[Phillip V]

Well it is no guarantee yet that De Blasio will be the Democratic mayoral candidate, let alone elected mayor. He needs 40% tonight to avoid a runoff. And in a runoff, it is not yet clear whether his challenger will be Thompson or Quinn.

[CountDeMoney]

I think Bloomberg should just go ahead and take the crown away from the Pope during his coronation, and give himself at least 2 more terms.  You know he wants to anyway.

[garbon]

Well it is no guarantee yet that De Blasio will be the Democratic mayoral candidate, let alone elected mayor. He needs 40% tonight to avoid a runoff. And in a runoff, it is not yet clear whether his challenger will be Thompson or Quinn.

True. That said if he is the Dem nominee, would he really lose to John "Cats" or Lhota? I mean who gets excited about Lhota? I think MTA and immediately think DEMON SPAWN.

[garbon]

I think Bloomberg should just go ahead and take the crown away from the Pope during his coronation, and give himself at least 2 more terms.  You know he wants to anyway.

I'd like that too.

[CountDeMoney]

I mean, honestly, would New Yorkers really mind?  Sure, the occasional stop-and-frisk-anything-larger-than-16oz aside, I think he's been doing swell.

[DGuller]

Well it is no guarantee yet that De Blasio will be the Democratic mayoral candidate, let alone elected mayor. He needs 40% tonight to avoid a runoff. And in a runoff, it is not yet clear whether his challenger will be Thompson or Quinn.

True. That said if he is the Dem nominee, would he really lose to John "Cats" or Lhota? I mean who gets excited about Lhota? I think MTA and immediately think DEMON SPAWN.

At least Lhota would make the trains run on time.     Actually, scratch that.

[garbon]

I mean, honestly, would New Yorkers really mind?  Sure, the occasional stop-and-frisk-anything-larger-than-16oz aside, I think he's been doing swell.

That's why I wish Quinn had kept her momentum. The boat needs no rocking.

[garbon]

Well it is no guarantee yet that De Blasio will be the Democratic mayoral candidate, let alone elected mayor. He needs 40% tonight to avoid a runoff. And in a runoff, it is not yet clear whether his challenger will be Thompson or Quinn.

True. That said if he is the Dem nominee, would he really lose to John "Cats" or Lhota? I mean who gets excited about Lhota? I think MTA and immediately think DEMON SPAWN.

At least Lhota would make the trains run on time.     Actually, scratch that.

Did they run on time when he was overseeing them?

[Phillip V]

For now, we can reasonably hope that tonight is the final end of Spitzer/Weiner's political careers.

[garbon]

Apparently Lhota is the Repub candidate for November.

[derspiess]

Cincy also had their mayoral primary today.  It's basically between to nearly-indistinguishable Democrats.  If I still lived within the city limits, I'd vote for the broad-- she supports continuing the streetcar project, which I initially sort of opposed, but we've got enough sunk cost in it right now to where we might as well plod forward.

[CountDeMoney]

For now, we can reasonably hope that tonight is the final end of Spitzer/Weiner's political careers.

I'm not so sure.  The guy is pathological.

[derspiess]

Wiener will eventually get an MSNBC show.