Poll: Thompson 'Strong'

Bill Thompson trails Michael Bloomberg by only 8 percentage points, despite being outspent 16 to 1, according to a new WABC-TV , which will be posted shortly on the web site Survey USA. The results were forwarded to me by an interested reader [link added].

Bloomberg leads Thompson 51 to 43 percent according to the poll, which has a margin of error of 4.2 percent, and was conducted from October 3 to 5.

The poll interviewed 1,000 “adults,” of which 888 were registered voters, and 561 were considered “likely voters.”

The poll referred to Thompson campaign as providing “strong opposition” to Bloomberg, who leads among older voters, but trails Thompson among younger ones.

UPDATE: Bloomberg campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said Survey USA has not been as accurate as other polls in this year's elections, and said, these latest numbers are "out of whack with other public polls and the reality."