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Dems attack de Blasio in new Lhota ad

Bill de Blasio is being haunted by the ghosts of his Democratic primary opponents.

His GOP mayoral rival, Joe Lhota has released a new Web ad, called “Democrats Agree,” which is set to hip-hop music and uses footage of Christine Quinn, Bill Thompson and John Liu going after de Blasio for flip-flopping on a host of issues during the Democratic primary.

“Reality check: Bill de Blasio wanted to overturn term limits when he was running for [City Council] speaker,” City Comptroller Liu says.

“The public advocate [De Blasio] should stop misrepresenting the facts,” Council Speaker Quinn charged.

Thompson put it more bluntly when he asked, “Why should the people of New York believe you, Bill, given your history . . . of doing things that are in your self-interest?”

De Blasio released a very different, optimistic Web ad, called “Our City,” focusing on the mosaic of people that make the Big Apple great.

“A city that understands that greatness is measured not by the height of our skyscrapers, but by the greatness by the strength of our neighborhoods,” the ad says without ever mentioning Lhota.

Trouncing Lhota in the polls, de Blasio has maintained a “rose garden strategy” of saying very little so as not to make a major mistake. A new poll out Monday showed the strategy is working.

His 50-point lead from Oct. 3 was holding strong at 44 points, although by more than a 2 to 1, voters said they were more interested in keeping the city safe than in stopping the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy. And voters’ top priority is jobs.

“The good news for Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is that he probably can start drafting his inauguration speech,” said Quinnipiac University pollster Maurice Carroll. “But while it’s a great big sunny sky up there for de Blasio, there are some tiny gray clouds in this poll — jobs and that it is more important to control crime than stopping stop-and-frisk.”

That offered a glimpse of good news for Lhota, a former deputy mayor under Mayor Rudy Giuliani who would continue the tactic. De Blasio has made curtailing the use of stop-and-frisk a cornerstone of his campaign.

Lhota shrugged off the poll, but said he planned to take a more aggressive stance at the second mayoral debate Tuesday night.

“I will have a different tone,” Lhota said.

De Blasio was also pulling ahead in fund-raising, with Hillary Rodham Clinton — whose 2000 Senate campaign he ran — holding an event for him at the Roosevelt Hotel that was anticipated to bring in more than $1 million.

Hours before, De Blasio gushed about his former boss, her affection for his family and shared pedigree with his wife, Chirlane, who attended the same college as Clinton.

“I would go to work and I worked for a strong-willed, forceful, progressive Wellesley woman,” de Blasio said of Clinton. “And I went home to a strong-willed, forceful, progressive Wellesley woman.”

De Blasio said Clinton’s “vote of confidence is crucially important.”

A birthday fund-raising bash thrown by Lhota’s wife and daughter last week brought in about $200,000, a source told The Post.