Bill de Blasio Maintains Huge Lead Over Joe Lhota Days Before NYC Mayoral Election: NBC4NY Poll
By Jon Schuppe
When Democrat Bill de Blasio headed into the New York City mayoral general election campaign in September with a huge lead in the polls, Republican Joe Lhota predicted he’d turn it around with a series of televised debates.
It didn’t happen.
With just days before Tuesday's election, 65 percent of likely voters say they will vote for de Blasio, compared to 24 percent for Lhota, a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows. That’s virtually unchanged from when the campaign started, after three debates. Back then, a NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll found de Blasio leading Lhota 65 percent to 22 percent.
“Since the primary, Lhota has needed to alter the character of the campaign, and he failed to do so,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Only 8 percent of likely voters said they might change their minds, while 1 percent said they were unsure whom they would back.
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