we have amy davidson and steve kerr knacky host of nbc's "up." i like campaigns that matter.f who the best person is. and they really do make a spontaneous, exciting, dynamic decision to go in a certain direction, and they don't vote for the jokes, for example just out of weirdness. your thoughts. >> absolutely. in the polls that you mentioned, when wiener was ahead, the person in second place was christine quinn who ended up in third. >> yeah. how'd that happen? >> there's an idea originally that the choices between this big personality, anthony wiener, and this continuation of bloomberg's new york, christine quinn, who was a city council member, it could be that the wiener scandal shook things up enough that people listened to the whole range of candidates and a lot of people in new york were really taken by de blasio and his idea about he gave a speech about new york being two cities. and there was time to kind of find a new balance there. christine quinn, in a way who has a lot of liberal credentials missed that moment and missed how safe new yorkers felt 12 years after 9