De Blasio Talks Income Gap As Second Poll Shows Him With Sizable Lead In Mayor's Race

[hrmjustin]

by: Grace Rauh

Democrat Bill de Blasio kept up his talk about income inequality Thursday in the face of a second poll on the mayor's race that showed him with a sizable lead over Republican opponent Joseph Lhota. NY1's Grace Rauh filed the following report.

Bill de Blasio's significant lead over his Republican opponent is still intact. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows him beating Joseph Lhota 66 percent to 25 percent among likely voters. His 41-point lead is only slightly smaller than the one he had in a poll earlier this week.

De Blasio beats Lhota among white voters, black voters, Hispanic voters, and among men and women, and his call for a tax hike on rich New Yorkers to pay for pre-kindergarten does not seem to be hurting him with the wealthy, as he has twice as much support as Lhota from the city's biggest earners.

"If the public polls say anything, I think it's clear that people are listening to the message I'm putting out there," de Blasio said.

http://www.ny1.com/content/news/189056/de-blasio-talks-income-gap-as-second-poll-shows-him-with-sizable-lead-in-mayor-s-race

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Let's hope nat'l DEMs are listening as well:

>>>"If the public polls say anything, I think it's clear that people are listening to the message I'm putting out there," de Blasio said. >>>