Left: Bill de Blasio. Right: Joe Lhota.

Poll: De Blasio Opens 50 Point Lead over Lhota

A new poll shows Democrat Bill de Blasio leading Republican rival Joe Lhota with 71 percent of likely voters in the race for New York City mayor. Lhota has 21 percent in the Quinnipiac University poll, with Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion taking 2 percent.

Five percent of voters remain undecided. But 11 percent of respondents who named a candidate say there’s still a “good chance” they’ll change their mind by Nov. 5.

Among white voters, the survey shows de Blasio ahead of Lhota 55 to 40 percent. Among black voters he leads 90 to 6 percent and 79 to 10 percent among Hispanics.

The poll of 1, 198 likely voters was conducted Sept. 25 to Oct. 1.The margin of error is plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.

4 Comments

  • Ma Rabbi

    This is NOT good news. DeBlasio is a radical leftist.
    He is not our friend. But the good news is that the election is still far away and alot can happen between now and then.

  • former MTA chairman Joe Lhota

    is a loser.

    he quit the mta where he was doing the best job ever to get embarrassed LOL

  • SEREL MANESS

    AS THE REBBE SAYS WE MUST PUT OUR TRUST IN HASHEM,HAVEN’T WE SEEN MIRACLES ENOUGHT