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Posted on 11/18/2015 8:02:43 AM PST by reaganaut1
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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The White liberals voted for him because they are stupid. This won’t cure their stupidity.
But he has the lesbian black vote locked up.
Another Great Experiment = Fail
I think I see the problem........................
They get the government that they voted for. I have no sympathy for them AT ALL............................
Why? He’s doing exactly what he promised. There are some really, really stupid people out there.
When intelligent voters stay home, you get a Di Blazio. You got what you didn’t go out and vote for. TS NYC.
.......and the #BLM crowd,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
‘...with his efforts to create a more liberal New York...’
The only way he could posssibly manage this is to pass out Little Red Books and stage May Day parades.
His solution is simple then: GET RID OF WHITE VOTERS, like the Dhimmicrats did in Detroit!
Vote Dhimmicrat until the whole country looks like Detroit!
At what point do they say the heck with it and throw in the towel because they can't take the Progressivism and lack of Leadership anymore.
They made their bed, let them lay in it. No sympathy from these quarters!
So bad that they voted him and his communist policies in as mayor. Can New Yorker’s be more stupid?
There are white people in New York?
Uh oh. Somebodies safe space is at risk then.
What are there like 10 left in the city?
:-)
Most Whites in NYC are too lazy to vote.
Only 22% of New Yorkers bothered to vote when De Blasio won. Most Whites did not even show up.
The only support of theirs he wants is their payroll taxes.
Nothing from the North is welcomed with open arms.
Can Rudy run for mayor again? He should be eligible. A fight between him and DeBlasio would be epic.
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