Associated Press
NEW YORK — The New York mayoral race took a nasty turn Saturday, with Democrat Mark Green hammering Michael Bloomberg’s personal and public record and the Republican candidate blasting Green for running a smear campaign.
The allegations came as two polls showed Green and Bloomberg running nearly even just three days before New Yorkers pick a successor to Republican Rudolph Giuliani. Earlier polls showed Green once held a lead of 20 percentage points.
A New York Times poll released Saturday had Green with 42 percent of likely voters, Bloomberg with 37 percent, and an unusually high 20 percent undecided.
The margin of error among likely voters in the Times poll was plus or minus 5 percent, meaning the gap between the two candidates was not statistically significant.
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