See how they run: New poll says Peskin and Lurie are tied for mayor

One poll, conducted by the polling firm Public Policy Research in early October, showed Peskin in third place, at 17 percent. The next, an identical poll taken weeks later on October 18 and 19, shows Peskin tied with Daniel Lurie at 25 percent; London Breed in third with 18 percent, and Mark Farrell in fourth place with 15 percent. “Terrible, right?” said Sterns, when contacted about his reversal of policy.

“This is a dire circumstance.” That dire circumstance is several other polls that don’t show Peskin in the lead, including one, done by Sextant Strategies & Research and released today by the, based on data collected on October 15 and 16. “We thought we should add ours to the mix, because ours is literally the last, most recent poll,” says Stearns.



Sunny Angulo, Peskin’s former chief of staff and current campaign manager, chooses to see this as a good sign. “You know Aaron is surging in this race,” Angulo told thePoliticians and influence groups are releasing polls right now, says Stearns, because everybody’s trying to keep voters enthusiastic, margin of error or no margin of error. “We’ve consistently been in third place.

This is the first time we’ve been in first place. Not that much reason to hide it. Please keep your comments short and civil.

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