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How To Blow $100M And Have It Backfire
Liz Benjamin reports: With 90 percent of precincts reporting, Mayor Bloomberg is leading Bill Thompson by 494,367 to 461,129. That’s 50.0 percent to 46.7 percent, which is not decisive. Not at all. It’s more like a cliffhanger. And this after spending some $100 million of his own cash. Maybe NYers are much harder to buy than you thought, eh, Mike? Meanwhile, up in NY-23, Bill Owens (D) is doing well: Thirty-one percent of precincts are reporting and he’s leading Conservative Doug Hoffman, 51.1 percent to 43.9 percent.
GO. VOTE. TODAY.
The polls are open citywide from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. To find your polling place, check the locator on the Board of Elections website, or call 866-VOTE-NYC or 311. Here’s the official New York City Campaign Finance Board voter guide to the 2009 races. Here’s the video voter guide, if you prefer. And here are your choices in the citywide races, with some useful Daily News information about them: FOR MAYOR Michael Bloomberg (R, I) William Thompson (D, WFP) FOR CONTROLLER John Liu (D, WFP) Joe Mendola (R) FOR PUBLIC ADVOCATE Bill de Blasio (D, WFP) Alex Zablocki (R) Happy voting! Daily News
