Many paradegoers from the neighborhood said they preferred de Blasio.
“I live down the block from Bill Thompson and he never even says good morning,” Harlem resident Zena Jennings said.
Another supporter, Chet Why, said de Blasio’s multiracial family mattered.
“I don’t have to explain my angst about raising a black son in New York City,” he said.
Let's say de Blasio does fall below 40% and Thompson forces a runoff.
Does Thompson really think he can win that runoff?
Does he think all the unions that have endorsed de Blasio and all the people that have supported de Blasio will change their support to Thompson in a runoff?
I dunno, I've been following the race pretty closely, I know that the public polls all showed Thompson losing a runoff to de Blasio by at least 12 percentage points.
It's true that Quinn was losing a runoff to de Blasio by a much larger margin, but 12 points is nothing to sneeze at, not when a runoff election would be held on Oct 1 and it's now September 16.
Thomspon has no money to spend, he's been muted on the trail, holding very few public appearances, while de Blasio has been all over the place garnering good press wherever he goes.
Bill Thompson is a fool if he thinks he's anything but a longshot to beat de Blasio at this point.
Even Thompson's behavior during this intermittent stage has been strange - he could be holding lots of public appearances and trying to rally supporters.
Instead, he's mostly stayed to himself, only venturing out once in a while for an appearance here or there.
The cynic in me says he's holding out not because he thinks he can win but because he wants to hurt de Blasio.
Maybe it's wounded pride, maybe it's like Norm Scott says and Thompson's on the take from the GOP (D'amato and Tisch backing him does lend credence to that theory.)
Either way, he's hurting de Blasio by sticking around, he certainly isn't helping himself by how he's running things, and in the end, most people around the city seem to just want him to go away.
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