In the latest Quinnipiac poll, former congressman Weiner is ahead of New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, his biggest competition, by 25 to 22 percent in the race for mayor. And former governor Eliot Spitzer is beating Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer by 48 percent to 33 percent in the race for city comptroller. The fallen golden boys don't look quite so tainted now.
What Spitzer and Weiner have in common over their opponents is an early and aggressive marketing campaign via sex scandal. Being bad is good in New York, for better or for worse. People may know Weiner because of his sexually explicit-sexting scandal or Spitzer because of his dalliances with ladies of the night, but it's working for the two candidates. Other than those two, polled citizens were practically indifferent to every other choice. When pollsters were asked to pass a favorable or unfavorable opinion about the candidates, Weiner and Spitzer are the only two whose "haven't heard enough" scores came in under 20 percent. No one knows who the other guys are.
New York City voters should be required to take an eye test, they are blind, and their memories are short. It is a travesty to think that two men, with NO character, could be elected to public office .... Oh, wait, no, I'm sorry, integrity means nothing any more, just name recognition. "Yes, I have heard of Weiner, he posted nude photos of himself on the internet, and Spitzer, oh yes, he helped support hookers in New York, I've heard of them both, my biggest concern though, I think that Weiner is not spelling his name properly, it should be Wiener to be correct ..... and he showed pictures of his ..... what ..... now I know it's not spelled right."
