[Conservative til I die]

Why exactly is the defeat of the non-partisan elections ballot initiative good for us? How long can we reasonaby expect to win partisan elections in a city that is 5-1 RAT?

I live just outside of NYC, so this issue doesn't quite matter to me, but we still have partisan elections and while my city has a comparable ratio of Dems to Republicans as NYC, the GOP regularly wins races, except in a few of the downtown City Council seats. Of course, the Dems in my city, outside of the ghetto-welfare people, trend more conservative, old school ethnic blue collar Dems.

In fact, the only way a Democrat can win the mayoral race is when two popular GOP/Conservative Party candidates split the vote (usually pulling in around 65% combined).

It is possible for Republicans to win in NY as Republicans.