polls
Cuomo lags Christie in a national Democratic poll, but he won't always be this retiring
Christie is better known that Cuomo, and Cuomo has the power to change that whenever he wants. More
Convenient assumptions from a Joe Lhota victory scenario
Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota's campaign has sent out a fund-raising email presenting what he says is a path to victory in the general. More
(1)Video briefing: Quinn's police positions 'contradict' each other, but not the polls
The New York Times editorial board is criticizing Democratic mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn for a seeming contradiction in her positions on law enforcement: More
(1)A question about the prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the sociability of Anthony Weiner
Will Eric Holder seek the death penalty against the surviving Boston bomber suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? [Reid PIllifant]
Chuck Grassley got into a heated exchange with Chuck Schumer, denying he ever linked the Boston bombing to immigration reform. [Reid Pillifant]
Fred Dicker has a revelation about Andrew Cuomo's trustworthiness. [Azi Paybarah]
Why the most popular anti-corruption measure isn't on Albany's radar
Establishing term limits for state legislators is the most popular solution to fighting corruption in the New York State legislature. Term limits also has absolutely zero chance of becoming law. More
Anthony Weiner's quasi-campaign starts in runoff territory
Anthony Weiner would get about 15 percent of the vote if the Democratic mayoral primary were held today, putting him second only to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. More
Quinn announces female support, gets pelted with questions about Weiner
Most of the questions from reporters, though, was about Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who resigned his seat in 2011 because of a sexting scandal involving a variety of women.
Should women not vote for him because of the scandal? What did you make of his second-place finish in the poll? Should he even be running for mayor? At one point, Times reporter Michael Grynbaum asked Quinn if, during her walk-and-talk tours throughout the city, she's gotten a sense from New Yorkers about whether Weiner should return to politics. More
A new poll puts non-candidate Anthony Weiner in second place
If former congressman Anthony Weiner were a mayoral candidate, he'd have more Democratic support than any primary contender other than City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, according to an NBC New York Marist poll. More
Quinn may have dropped, but her biggest early rival is still 'don't know'
The news, such as it is, emerging from yesterday's Quinnipiac University poll of the Democratic mayoral primary is that support for the front-runner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, dropped five percentage points. More
Ray Kelly, Anthony Weiner and the impact of the non-candidate
A new Quinnipiac poll out today shows a majority of voters support creating an office of inspector general for the New York Police Department, while at the same time giving the NYPD commissioner "the highest job approval rating of any citywide elected or appointed official." Ray Kelly's approval-disapproval numbers are 65-25, and nobody else comes close. (Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at 50-43.) More
A 'paid sick time' poll and campaign video aimed at Quinn
The fight over "paid sick time" is increasingly becoming a proxy fight for critics of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. More
Cuomo edges a less-known Christie in a presidential poll of New Yorkers
A new Quinnpiac poll of New York State voters shows New Yorks' Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo leading New Jersey's Republican governor Chris Christie 46-38 percent, in a theoretical head-to-head matchup for the presidency. More
(2)Poll: Cuomo, less moderate, still popular
A new NBC-WSJ-Marist poll shows support for freshman Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo is beginning to split more predictably along traditional party lines. More
(1)An outer-borough parade-season test for Bloomberg (and de Blasio)
In a radio interview this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg mentioned that he'll be attending the first in a series of St. Patrick's Day parades, marking the start of parade season around the city. More
After all that, public approval of the N.R.A. is about the same
A new NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released today shows the National Rifle Association maintains about the same level of public support that it has over the last decade. More
