Bill de Blasio rallied from being one of the most unlikely Democratic candidates for New York City Mayor to possibly winning the entire mayoral election in a massive landslide.

De Blasio campaigned against his Republican counterpart, Joe Lhota, throughout the month of October after he finished off the rest of the Democratic candidates. Lhota, who has faced an uphill battle from the beginning, started to cater to the liberal voters in NYC with hopes of evening the playing field. Despite this, de Blasio still has the vote of 65 percent of New Yorkers while just under a quarter of New Yorkers support Lhota, an NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll says. The same poll taken at the beginning of the campaign produced almost identical numbers, showing just how little things have changed.

One of the main themes to de Blasio's campaign has been the controversial issue of stop-and-frisk. The city has faced intense criticism due to its unconstitutional policy allowing police officers to stop people on the street and search them without a warrant. Lhota says stop and frisk is an important part of what keeps the crime rate lower in the city, but de Blasio has pointed out the racial implications the policy has had. One of the main reasons why Stop and Frisk gained so much attention is because minorities have been targeted and most of the time these people are not breaking the law.

48 percent of people said de Blasio would be the better candidate in terms of keeping crime rates down; 32 percent said it would be Lhota.