We know more about Weiner's "junk" than we do about Obama's past. What a country!

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

But I guess that's not an impediment to being a politician?

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Three-way ‘tie’ in

Democratic mayoral race

• By SALLY GOLDENBERG
• Last Updated: 10:59 AM, June 27, 2013
• Posted: 1:34 AM, June 27, 2013
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  The mayor’s race — once Christine Quinn’s to lose — has turned into a virtual dead heat among three contenders, according to a poll released yesterday.

  After leading the pack at 37 percent in February, Quinn has dropped steadily to 19 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University survey, with Anthony Weiner and Bill Thompson hot on her trail at 17 percent and 16 percent, respectively.

  Public Advocate Bill de Blasio held steady at 10 percent and Comptroller John Liu, dogged by a federal investigation into his campaign finances, was struggling at 7 percent.

  A May 22 Quinnipiac poll had Quinn with 25 percent, Weiner with 15 percent, and Thompson at 10 percent.

  The new poll was the biggest surge of the campaign for Thompson, who has had trouble breaking into double digits. The endorsement from the United Federation of Teachers last week undoubtedly helped Thompson, said poll director Mickey Carroll.

  “The big story in my book is Thompson,” Carroll said. “I think the UFT moved Thompson up and I guess the second story is Quinn down and Weiner up. You can explain Thompson. The Quinn-Weiner stuff is harder to explain.”

  In a Marist College-Wall Street Journal-NBC poll out Tuesday night, Weiner led Quinn 25 percent to 20 percent, with Thompson at 13 percent.

  Carroll explained the discrepancy by noting that Quinnipiac polled after the UFT endorsement, but Marist had finished surveying days earlier.

  Also, Marist poll chief Lee Miringoff said his questioners ask undecided voters how they’re leaning; Quinnipiac does not.

  Twenty-eight percent of the 1,238 registered Democrats surveyed remain undecided in the new poll.

  Both Quinn’s and Thompson’s campaigns downplayed the results.

  “In the course of 24 hours two separate polls have shown two separate things. The one thing that is constant is that Christine Quinn is the only candidate who has demonstrated she can lead this city,” said Quinn spokesman Mike Morey.

  Thompson strategist Jonathan Prince said, “We’re not going to make a fuss about early polls when they’re good for us or bad for us, because they’re all early polls. This race will be decided in late summer, and one of the people on the other end of it will be Bill Thompson — who is always underestimated and who always closes strong.”

  Additional reporting by Yoav Gonen

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