De Blasio surges ahead in race for NYC Mayor
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio — the leading elected official to support Long Island College Hospital — has pulled ahead in the Democratic race for New York City mayor with 30 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.
De Blasio is followed by former front-runner City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has dropped to 24 percent. Former Comptroller William Thompson polled 22 percent.
Trailing the three top runners are former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner with 10 percent, Comptroller John Liu with 6 percent, 1 percent for former Council member Sal Albanese and 7 percent undecided.
Quinnipiac attributed de Blasio’s surge, with four weeks left in the campaign, to “strong support from white Democratic likely primary voters” and “voters critical of the so- called stop-and-frisk police tactic.”