["Bill Thompson, the New York City Comptroller, is suddenly making a strong showing in the polls against Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2009 New York City mayoral election. Thompson talks of growing up in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. He reacted with no emotion to then Newark Mayor Cory Booker's surprise endorsement of Bloomberg and President Obama's\nweak support of Thompson's campaign.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Bill Thompson, the New York City Comptroller, is suddenly making a strong showing in the polls against Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2009 New York City mayoral election. Thompson talks of growing up in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. He reacted with no emotion to then Newark Mayor Cory Booker's surprise endorsement of Bloomberg and President Obama's weak support of Thompson's campaign.")])]