By Colin Campbell 9/28/12 3:19pm

2013

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City Hall Horse Race: The Fame Monster Edition

It’s time for the latest installment of our weekly scorecard for next year’s potential mayoral candidates, rating how they’ve been doing in recent days. Overall, the candidates seemed generally pretty active on the issues they cared about, with the biggest change possibly being a Wall Street Journal report discussing Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s feelings and meetings with the candidates. But at Politicker, we’re really just interested in Lady Gaga. That’s something you’re just going to have to deal with. Read More

By Colin Campbell 9/14/12 4:25pm

2013

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City Hall Horse Race: Primary Hangover Edition

With fall upon us, Politicker plans to begin keeping score on how the top Democratic contenders for Gracie Mansion have been performing as the shadow campaign to replace term-limited Mayor Michael Bloomberg heats up.

Below you can find our ranking of who’s up and who’s down after a week of primary fights that many of the candidates jumped into. Note that is is only relative to where they stood in recent weeks, and is not an assessment of the likelihood that they will win, as that list–where Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former Comptroller Billy Thompson would be on top during these summer doldrums barring surprise developments–would be far less esoteric and far more boring! Read More