{"id":4999,"date":"2009-06-16T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2009-06-16T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:16:09","slug":"ill_take_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/ill_take_it.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/16\/poll-shows-big-bloomberg-lead-over-thompson\/\">&#8220;Poll Shows Big Bloomberg Lead Over Thompson&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg leads City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., his chief Democratic challenger, 54 percent to 32 percent, among New York City voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But look on the bright side &#8212; 1) couldn&#8217;t a lot of people get 54 percent if they had $20 million to spend before June? And 2) &#8220;June&#8221; is siginificant here, because it&#8217;s still early! See, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/x1302.xml?ReleaseID=539\">poll numbers from late July 2001<\/a>, when people hadn&#8217;t really gotten to know Bloomberg yet (of course, there <em>was<\/em> that lucky post-9\/11, pre-RNC Giuliani endorsement):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg has closed the gap against any of the four Democratic candidates, but still trails any Democrat, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. <\/p>\n<p>In a June 7 poll by the independent Quinnipiac University, Bloomberg trailed any of the four Democrats by margins of 2 -1 or more. <\/p>\n<p>In this latest poll, possible general election matchups show:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City Council Speaker Peter Vallone over Bloomberg 53 &#8211; 28 percent, with 16 percent undecided, down from 61 &#8211; 18 percent June 7;<\/li>\n<li>Public Advocate Mark Green over Bloomberg 54 &#8211; 28 percent, with 15 percent undecided, down from 62 &#8211; 20 percent;<\/li>\n<li>City Comptroller Alan Hevesi over Bloomberg 51 &#8211; 29 percent, with 17 percent undecided, down from 58 &#8211; 21 percent;<\/li>\n<li>Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer over Bloomberg 48 &#8211; 33 percent, with 17 percent undecided, down from 55 &#8211; 25 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah yeah, &#8220;Poll Shows Big Bloomberg Lead Over Thompson&#8221;: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg leads City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., his chief Democratic challenger, 54 percent to 32 percent, among New York City voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday. But look on the bright side &#8212; 1) couldn&#8217;t a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}