Anthony Weiner was clearly not bothered today by a new poll that placed him a distant fourth in the mayor’s race, even implying that front-runner Christine Quinn was the one who should be worried by the numbers.
“It was an interesting poll, I mean, on some levels,” the sexting-scarred former congressman told Politicker earlier this afternoon while crossing the street at a campaign event in Brownsville, Brooklyn. “One of my opponents has been on the air [with ads] for three weeks and actually went down in the poll.”
The poll, conducted by Siena College and the New York Times, found that Ms. Quinn led the field comfortably with 25 percent of the vote, while Mr. Weiner’s standing continued to plummet in the wake of last month’s new sexting revelations. At one time, Mr. Weiner was the front-runner, but now has the backing of only 10 percent of Democrats. A July Siena poll found Ms. Quinn with 27 percent.
Quinn gets the headlines as the "frontrunner," but she is nowhere near the 40% threshold she needs to get over to avoid a runoff and these numbers in the poll show she has a really tough time when she makes it to a runoff with Thompson (they haven't polled Quinn/De Blasio in a runoff scenario yet.)
She's been running ads for a few weeks now and she's treading water at best, perhaps even losing a point here or there.
Not exactly something that should make the Quinn campaign optimistic.
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