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NY1 ItCH: Could Christine Quinn Be Finished?
By: Bob Hardt
hristine Quinn has to be sweating.
With yesterday's release of a new Q poll, the City Council Speaker may be seeing her political life flash in front of her eyes as Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is approaching the 40 percentage points needed to avoid a primary runoff on Oct. 1st. Here are a few thoughts I have in the wake of this poll that shows Quinn deadlocked with Bill Thompson for a fight for a distant second place:
1) The collapse of Anthony Weiner gave Bill de Blasio his big opening with white liberal voters.
The two candidates have had massive reversal of fortunes since a July 24th Q poll: Weiner has plummeted 18 percentage points while de Blasio has picked up 21 points. Meanwhile, both Quinn and Thompson's numbers have stayed virtually the same over the last month.
Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/ny1_political_itch/187913/ny1-itch--could-christine-quinn-be-finished-