Easy. If the one on the left doesn't reside there, they could use the one on the right:
Posted on 01/25/2017 5:10:25 AM PST by drewh
Hillary Clinton would easily dethrone vulnerable Bill de Blasio and cruise to victory as the next mayor of New York City — if she wants the job — political insiders told the Herald yesterday.
“Were she to run, de Blasio’s best move would be to put in his retirement papers,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran New York City Democratic strategist who’s worked for both former President Bill Clinton and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“If she shows up, she clears the field — it’s over. She’s wildly popular here, and her rationale for running is she can unite the city and she could be an advocate in Washington, where she has friends in the House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle.”
Clinton, fresh off a devastating presidential upset, has given no indication whether she’d return to politics, but a chance to run the largest city in America — and the place where the Trump Organization is headquartered — could be impossible to pass up.
It’s not the leader of the free world, but it’s an influential, high-caliber political post that past mayors like John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani have used to launch White House bids, albeit failed ones.
Other cities around the world are often quick to follow New York’s lead on policies and initiatives — the city’s 2003 decision to ban smoking in the workplace, for instance.
“When New York did it, Italy, Ireland, most of Europe and the rest of the country followed,” said Stu Loeser, a longtime press secretary to Bloomberg.
“If you really care about innovating in policy, you have the flexibility, the power, the resources and the bully pulpit to do it in New York and have it copied,” Loeser said.
Loeser also argued that Clinton’s political weaknesses — including her inability to connect with average voters the way former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did — will be less damaging in a mayoral run.
“It matters in a presidential race. New Yorkers approach things a little differently,” Loeser said. “New Yorkers like wonky technocratic mayors that roll up their sleeves, but more importantly, offer new and interesting ideas.”
A Quinnipiac University poll last week showed Clinton well ahead of de Blasio in a hypothetical showdown. Clinton, running as an independent, leads de Blasio, running as a Democrat, 49-30 percent, according to the poll. The same survey shows most New Yorkers, by a 49-42 margin, don’t believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected.
Easy. If the one on the left doesn't reside there, they could use the one on the right:
Is Chappaqua inside the New York City city limits? If it isn’t, will she move into the city and add to her ‘carpetbagger’ credentials?
But, something like this would get her back into the propaganda pulpit.
Quinni-PEE-ACK = Clinton pollsters, always oversample Clinton’s numbers. How big did they predict Hillary’s win over Trump?
In an unrelated poll, New York City residents preferred Stalin over Marx by 52-46 with the rest undecided.
Eh, they can move Gracie Mansion to Riker's Island.
translation: 7 out of 10 New Yorkers are mentally ill.
We’ve heard this song before...
She runs for New York City Mayor, wins, and holds the job for eight years or so to establish her executive bonafides.
Then, in eight years, she runs for New York governor, wins and holds that job for eight years to establish herself again in the national limelight.
Then, after that eight years, she runs again for President ...
Hillary Clinton for President in 2032.
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I have my doubts that she is interested in any job so pedestrian as having to manage the actual day-to-day needs of the “little people”.
Negotiating with the police & Sanitation Unions? What to do with the homeless? No, sniff, these are such small potatoes - not befitting a woman of her station.
I forgot. Chapaqua is not in NYC. I think a lot of people are forgetting that, but she’s been pretty good at carpetbagging.
Bloomie, Deblasio, and now Hillary?
NYC deserves everything it gets - good and hard!
More MSM poll fakery?
Ridiculous. Polls are unreliable. This is worth nothing. It’s sympathy for hillary because she lost to Trump.
That said, Hillary, whose vote total in NYC is what gave her New York's electoral votes (she won a minority of the counties here -- sound familiar?), doesn't live in NYC. So unless she moves in with Chelsea, she needs to get herself an apartment here. Who knows? Maybe Bill already has a love nest here somewhere.
Once she does that, she'll actually be a "carpetbagger squared".
New Yorkers want Clinton. New Yorkers love wonky mayors who have new ideas and roll up their sleeves and get to work. Anyone see anything wrong with putting these two sentences together?
I can see the inauguration now. They roll her in on a gurney all hooked up to a heart-lung machine. The press talks about her strength and courage.
Let her run. This is just another opportunity to shine the light on her.........................
I hate the way you define Hillary...she is from the Midwest.
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