Posted on 11/18/2015 7:59:56 AM PST by Theoria
Nearing the midpoint of his term, Mayor Bill de Blasio is confronting a city that is deeply divided about his ability to lead, with his efforts to create a more liberal New York overshadowed by growing worries about homelessness and crime, a new poll finds.
Nowhere is that concern more visible than among a group, long cool to Mr. de Blasio, that he has now decisively lost: whites.
Just 28 percent of white New Yorkers approve of the Democratic mayor’s performance, and 59 percent now disapprove, up sharply from the start of his term, according to a citywide poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. Nearly half say that the city is a worse place to live under his watch — only 9 percent say it is better — and 51 percent say New York is now less safe, even as crime statistics reach historic lows.
Over all, 52 percent of New Yorkers say the city is on the wrong track, including 62 percent of whites and 51 percent of Hispanics. Black residents are evenly split.
Mr. de Blasio’s support among white residents has descended to a level so dismal that it has challenged a core assumption of his political strategy: that in a diversifying city, moderate white voters had lost much of their electoral influence, and that the mayor’s path to re-election runs through nonwhite communities.
In early 2014, not long after his term began, 38 percent of whites approved and 45 percent disapproved of Mr. de Blasio’s performance.
The mayor’s advisers are now making concerted efforts to recapture the support — or, at least, tamp down the opposition — of a group that, aides fear, could rally around a potential challenger in 2017.
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No doubt he crossed them off his list long ago.
But will it matter in an election?
They put him there. Let them live with it and they (presumably) won’t make the same mistake again.
There are many good conservatives here, but we are greatly outnumbered. Many people who are ideologically on the fence vote for Democrats so “things can get done”.
Augers well for the “correction” being seen in November next year when these same voters pull the lever for Trump, helping him turn NY red for the first time since 1984.
I'm not sure, but I think it is possible to at least temporarily deaden the effects.
The mayor with 3 different names who supports communism and who did not win with the majority of the people losing support? See post 2.
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