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The place for politics and thus the news cycle, a battle in the bills in the race for the mayor of new york city. bill de blasio is hanging on to a 41.2%, enough to avoid a runoff with bill thompson. but thousands of new yorkers filled out paper ballots because of broken machines so it could take days or weeks to finish counting. thompson vowed not to concede until a recount. anthony weiner ended his campaign literally giving a middle finger to reporters. he finished in fifth place. >> and on a ...

Elliott spitzer and anthony wiener gone. sent home despite $10 million spent. spitzer lost his bid to scott stringer. 52-48. as for wiener, he got crushed. getting just 5% of the vote. who were those 5%? hang your headsday, kids, in that primary race for mayor. how is he taking it? >> we might have come up a little short in this campaign, but we are all unified in that fight. and if we keep fighting, and i hope you will, if you keep fighting, im going to keep fighting because were going to keep ...

Hypothetical match-ups and doesnt give thompson a lot of time to make up the gap. it will be interesting to see if we have a runoff or not in the next few days. >> the other headline from new york yesterday, is that i guess scandals get you on front page and headlines but doesnt get you a victory. not just anthony weiner but eliot spitzer. i do believe some people were surprised with eliot spitzer going down. >> he had a lead in some polls but his opponent scott stringer had been taking the adva...

This other race on tuesday. scott stringer versus eliot spitzer. i took stringer a while ago. will i win my bet? >> its looking good. >> good answer. josh benson, well have you back sometime. were not forgetting about the republicans in this race. next saturday we will talk to the likely republican nominee. thank you, josh benson. the most liberal member of the supreme court making liberals nervous these days. well look at why. thats ahead. ♪ we go, go, we dont have to go solo ♪ ♪ fire, fi...

Points ahead over all. i dont know that hes in a great place. >> and now vindication. a new poll from quinnipiac shows the race between spitzer and scott stringer dead even. tied at 46%. theres stringer momentum in the air. i called it. just like i called it when i sized up the scott brown. >> martha coakley race a few years ago and wrote the noise on the right about scott brown pulling up a shocking upset to fill ted kennedys senate seat is just that. take it from this bay state native. it aint...

Ago shows this race in a dead heat, 46-46. scott stringer has taken every major newspaper endorsement and according to the poll spitzer has seen his backing among african-americans fall way. stringers campaign is targeting spitzers controversial past a topic spitzer has avoid. an announce mailer reads, anyone else who committed elliot spitters crimes would go jail. its a reference to the former governors prostitution scandal. the spitzer campaign pushing back releasing a statement scott stringer...

B, milk cartons are out in virginia wondering where he is. >> cuccinelli is getting it from all sides and at the end of the day his own words havent hurt him so much as the cast of characters, including the governor, that are around him now. speaking of cast of characters in new york, we have christine quinn who is seeming to fall and de blasio, the front page here, talking about de blasio, man, this guy, hes looking like he may avoid the runoff and then another new york race, eliot spitzer who ...

Committing a second crime. i think for people who are not yet hardened criminals, one of our major goals should be how can we intervene so that you, in fact, get back to a life of having a family, earning a living and being in the community. >> weve got to leave it there, but its a good discussion. im sure the debate will continue. thanks to both of you for coming in. >> thank you. an interview going on right now, there you see anthony weiner. its called buzzfeed brews. ben smith is interviewi...

Him. >> no doubt about it. he definitely -- theres no doubt you go back to rand paul running in 2010 and, of course, rand paul was not the favorite of mitch mcconnell. he had supported a more mainstream candidate. rand paul won anyway. the fact that they are working together as a marriage of convenience at best. and i just -- i have to follow up with what gene said. whats most fascinating about this, and most revealing about this, is how people who are closest to rand paul, are so actively engag...

Politico reports the immigration reform group backed by mark zuckerberg will air at backing congressman paul ryan. disgraced former new york governor eliot spitzer is ahead of scott stringer 44% to 35% for new yorks comptrollers race. [ female announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives.