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Updated 11/01/2009 07:00 PM

Mayoral Candidates Make Final Weekend Push

By: NY1 News

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With just two days until the election, both Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Democratic challenger William Thompson spent most of the weekend getting out the vote.

Bloomberg hit the campaign trail Sunday in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

Thompson, meanwhile, spent the day stumping with city comptroller candidate John Liu and public advocate contender Bill de Blasio in Queens.

Polls show Bloomberg has a comfortable lead over Thompson, but the mayor's biggest concern appears to be just making sure his supporters come out and vote.

Thompson also repeated his message that the mayor is pushing average New Yorkers out of the city.

"It's up to you to decide whether we keep making progress or it's politics as usual," Bloomberg said. "It is up to all of us because we made a lot of progress over the past eight years and I believe the next four years can be even better."

"I've been talking about an affordable city, a city where middle class voters, where working New Yorkers, where poor New Yorkers have an opportunity to stay here, an opportunity to grow, have good paying jobs, have an educational system that works for all children, and you're not squeezed out," Thompson said.

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