and of course, we have eliot spitzer running for comptroller. and i don t have the numbers in front of me right now. but they re going to whisper them in my ear as we speak here. we have 79% for for 79% in. and spitzer is for for stringer is at 51.6%. uh-huh. i think eliot spitzer. 48.4. there hunter, got to listen into the phone call with the control room. so that s too close to call. that s for sure. yeah, that has been a tossup for a while. early polls showed spitzer who has better name recognition with a huge lead. as soon as stringer got his ad up. he really, really closed the gap. i think you see a tossup. spitzer has name recognition. looking good in the poll from the outset. for what i thought was a
low. natural that everyone else is saying they re expecting there will be a run-off. because they want to keep themselves alive. so, i think we will see what happens. well he has ticked up to 39.5%. you ve might be up late counting every one of these, hunter. but of it looks pretty solid in, in terms of the finish here. that bill thompson looks like he is in a position to hold on to the number two spot at 26. yeah, i mean the only question is whether or not bill de blasio crosses the 40% thing. the one point that is really worth pointing out here is that the boe in new york city has the had a history of disputed election results that ended in legal drama, kind of shifting counts, issues, florida-like issues with paper ballots. we have already seen some indications there were equipment problems at the polls. anthony weiner, and another candidate in the race, unable to vote. so that kind of thing could mean we go to court next week. and of course, we have eliot spitzer running
we have already seen some indications there were equipment problems at the polls. anthony weiner, and another candidate in the race, unable to vote. so that kind of thing could mean we go to court next week. and of course, we have eliot spitzer running for comptroller. and i don t have the numbers in front of me right now. but they re going to whisper them in my ear as we speak here. we have 79% for for 79% in. and spitzer is for for stringer is at 51.6%. uh-huh. i think eliot spitzer. 48.4. there hunter, got to listen into the phone call with the control room. so that s too close to call. that s for sure. yeah, that has been a tossup for a while. early polls showed spitzer who has better name recognition with a huge lead. as soon as stringer got his ad up. he really, really closed the gap. i think you see a tossup. spitzer has name recognition.
correction there in the way the media is treating him. a point i made earlier, you know people by their enemies. it is not going to hurt him, exactly. i always thiso think this is an of the media and high-level politicians living in any place but the moment. voters are much more likely to live in the moment and see this as eliot spitzer running for comptroller. he s not running for governor or higher office, i think they re willing to forgive things like the scandal that he had at this level. you know what, you want an attack dog, you know, at comptroller position to the extent that anybody knows what comptroller is. 30% stringer and 90% don t even know what a comptroller is. i think new yorkers are also going to remember, the economy, we re still recovering. eliot spitzer is the man who almost brought down aig long before aig almost brought down the world. you know, in the economic, in