New NYC poll: Dem voters to Weiner: Drop out.

[cali]

Anthony Weiner has plummeted to fourth place in the Democratic race for New York City mayor, and more than half of Democratic primary voters say he should quit, according to a poll released Monday.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads with 27% support among likely Democratic voters, followed by public advocate Bill DeBlasio (21%), former city comptroller Bill Thompson (20%) and Weiner (16%) in the Quinnipiac Poll.

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"I knew that revelations about my past private life might come back to embarrass me," Weiner wrote in a fundraising e-mail sent Monday. "I never hid from that possibility. But, I waged this campaign on a bet that the citizens of my city would be more interested in a vision for improving their lives rather than in old stories about mine."

By 53% to 40%, likely Democratic primary voters say Weiner should bow out of the race to lead the nation's most populous city. A majority of women and men agree that Weiner should quit, but the poll showed a racial gap. More than six in 10 white voters, or 64%, say Weiner should leave the mayor's race while 53% of black voters say he should stay.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/29/weiner-new-york-mayor-poll-quinnipiac/2596685/

[hrmjustin]

1. For me it is all about preventing Quinn from being the nominee. Weiner is done and I will not vote

for him.

[randysoames]

2. weiner fought for single payer in 2009 and now the corporations are attacking him

and all the so called progressives are helping the corporations take down the only real leftist who fought the hardest for single payer in 2009.

From wikipedia:

During the health care reform debates of 2009, Weiner advocated for a bill called the United States National Health Care Act, which would have expanded Medicare to all Americans, regardless of age.[20][21] He remarked that while 4% of Medicare funds go to overhead,[22] private insurers put 30% of their customer's money into profits and overhead instead of into health care.[23] In late July 2009, Weiner secured a full House floor vote for single payer health care in exchange for not amending America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (AAHCA) in Committee mark-up with a single-payer plan.[24] When a public health insurance option was being considered as part of America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, he said it would help towards reducing costs, and set up a website to push for the option.[23] He attracted wide attention when described the Republican Party as "a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry, teaming up with a small group of Democrats to try to protect that industry",[25] and proclaimed in front of Congress in February 2010 that "every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry."[26]

[hrmjustin]

3. Since you are so fond of posting this so much, why don't you start a new OP on it. You are past...

...10 posts and you can post an op on it.

[FBaggins]

4. Right... that must be it

They forced him to act like a twelve year old.

Those crafty corporations!

[allin99]

5. That's nice. So what?

[frylock]

7. sheer brilliance the way they got him to tweet his junk, then lie about tweeting his junk..

and then get him to continue to sext his junk after telling everyone he was done sexting his junk. sheer fucking brilliance.

[cali]

10. lol. sooo corporations made him send pics of his pecker, lie about

it, claim redemption, do it again and spend $45,000 in donor campaign funds to investigate his twitter account being hacked when he knew damned well it wasn't.

mind control, perhaps?

[pintobean]

12. How are the corporations attacking?

It seems to me, he doesn't need any help proving that he's an arrogant fool.

[randysoames]

13. the politician who fought the hardest for single payer, and he gets....

.....burned at the stake by the "progressives."

This nation is doomed. We are screwed.

[pintobean]

14. Or, maybe

New Yorkers just don't want Carlos Douchebag for their mayor.

[pintobean]

18. He wants to manage the biggest city in the nation.

He's shown that he can't even manage a fucking twitter account without getting his dick caught in his zipper.

Shudder....

[karynnj]

16. No one is attacking Bernie Sanders (or Ted Kennedy) who at different time

actually wrote legislation and filed it in the Senate. I would bet that there were some House members who did as well.

[allin99]

6. Best part in the poll is the now BdB and BT are ahead of weiner...

at very least thompson has been shown in the polls to win against quinn handily in the runoff, whereas mr. danger ties her in the polls. They didn't poll bdb against quinn yet, but hopefully soon.

woot!

[Nye Bevan]

8. I hope he doesn't try to stick it out (nt)

[allin99]

11. lol. weiner's going down.

[cthulu2016]

9. He should step aside to spend more time on his inevitable presidential run in 2016

[KharmaTrain]

17. The Only Poll That Matters...

...will be September 10th when New York City Democrats choose their mayoral nominee. Trying to force Weiner out makes him a "martyr" as he can once again blame the "media" or his enemies as being behind his downfall. I think the voters should hold the ultimate verdict on him. If he's repudiated then maybe he'll finally realize his ego games are over...time to get some help and move on in a different direction...