Leading Democrats, de Blasio Has Broad Support as Primary Nears (NYC Democratic mayoral primary)

NYT ^ | August 30, 2013 | MICHAEL BARBARO and DALIA SUSSMAN

[Zhang Fei]

Frustration with New York City’s unaffordability and its aggressive police tactics is elevating Bill de Blasio, once dismissed as a left-leaning long shot, into the lead of the Democratic mayoral primary field, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College.

Christine C. Quinn, the longtime front-runner in the nomination contest, is now lagging far behind Mr. de Blasio and struggling to connect with members of her own party: forty-five percent of likely Democratic voters view her unfavorably.

With 11 days remaining until the primary, the new survey shows a drastically reshaped race as a broad cross-section of voters embraces Mr. de Blasio’s candidacy. It found that 32 percent of likely Democratic voters supported Mr. de Blasio, who is the city’s elected public advocate, compared with 18 percent for William C. Thompson Jr., the former comptroller, and 17 percent for Ms. Quinn, the speaker of the City Council.

Mr. de Blasio’s campaign, fueled by a relentless focus on economic disparity and a searing critique of the Bloomberg administration, has transcended the city’s traditional demographic divisions: he is drawing higher levels of support from men and women, older and younger, than any of his rivals. He has won the backing of those who think the city is headed in the right direction and those convinced it is on the wrong track.

With so little time left in the primary, Mr. de Blasio’s commanding lead will quite likely force his Democratic rivals to recalibrate their strategies, intensify their attacks and seek to land decisive blows against him during the final televised debate next week.

[Zhang Fei]

NYC has had a 50% black and Hispanic population for a while now. My long-time pessimism about the city relates to the high likelihood that it will eventually elect the local equivalent of Detroit's Coleman Young, who will drive businesses and non-blacks out of New York City, with a combination of high taxes and a refusal to control crime. It looks like NYC is about to elect a white Coleman Young to office, a far leftist who will finally send the city down the tubes.

[from occupied ga]

a far leftist who will finally send the city down the tubes

And Bloomturd isn't a leftist?

[FES0844]

Dante’s dad will be the next mayor.

[andy58-in-nh]

From what I’ve seen, DeBlasio makes Bloomberg look like Reagan.

[headstamp 2]

Yep. NYC is about to enter a second Dinkins era.

Look for crime to escalate, the murder rate to increase and taxes to skyrocket.

[kevkrom]

And what, pray tell, are NYC Republicans doing about this? If the front-running Dems are imploding and they’re about to nominate a hard leftie, why can’t they get even a Guiliani type out there and actually try to prove their contention that they can win as centrists?

(Fact is, in New York, they can... it’s just most of the rest of the country that doesn’t work in, but they never seem to realize that.)

[from occupied ga]

I would say I pity New Yorkers, but they deserve it for electing socialists.

[stanne]

Frustration with the high ridiculously high cost of living drove out of that town and state a couple of years after college,

It has long been burying itself alive in high cost. The most amazing thing about paying such a high income percentage taxes is to see that multigenerational welfare recipients are living better than most

The worst part of it is that citizens don’t get involved and just say no

So they get these villainously oral candidates

Ray Kelly should run, they’d hate him, though.

Guiliani did a lot for order and safety, they hated him

[ronnie raygun]

His commercial says much, tax the rich to pay for after school programs, Stop and frisk a violation of civil rights. Here is a white guy married to a black girl who’s down wiff da bradas....go wiff da fro

[albie]

A deBlasio slogan is...”He Gets It”. Many libs across the country use this. It describes nothing.

[stanne]

Frustration with the high ridiculously high cost of living drove out of that town and state a couple of years after college,

It has long been burying itself alive in high cost. The most amazing thing about paying such a high income percentage taxes is to see that multigenerational welfare recipients are living better than most

The worst part of it is that citizens don’t get involved and just say no

So they get these villainously oral candidates

Ray Kelly should run, they’d hate him, though.

Guiliani did a lot for order and safety, they hated him

[surrey]

Isn’t the wife also a”former” lesbian?

[Reeses]

drive businesses and non-blacks out of New York City, with a combination of high taxes and a refusal to control crime.

Despite what the urban media claims, deurbanization is well underway. The cities are becoming reservations for the left side of the bell curve. The right side is moving to the suburbs for increased freedom, safety, and a better quality of life. Unions, socialism, communism are just bus stops on the way to bankruptcy.

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[Reeses]

ridiculously high cost of living

Cost is ultimately a function of energy consumption. The reason cities cost more to live in is because the lifestyle requires more energy and creates more pollution. The biggest energy sinks are the city government clock punchers. The leftist dream of herding everyone into high density communist housing in the name of global warming is a huge deception.

[Arthur McGowan]

In 2007, he said he admired Mario the Pious for his “courageous” stands on capital punishment and abortion. Yet another pro-abortion “Catholic” for Archbishop Dolan to sell Communion to.