The Quest to Stop the Pantsuit: NYC mayoral election 2013

morbs it is amazing to see you pulling for the lesser of two evils in a politics thread, esp one that's a clinton crony. he was against the single most progressive policy proposed in nyc in a generation (congestion pricing). a safe prediction: after four years of mr. 'a tale of two cities', income inequality will be worse.

but he is also the least likely to be re-elected, which seems like a good reason to vote for him and quinn is just so terrible. I was hoping lhota, who was actually fairly competent at the MTA, would attempt to fill the void here but just been a bumbling his way through this. liu is a good protest vote because nobody could interpret a vote for liu as anything but a protest vote. it is just astounding that one of these people will actually be mayor.

I'm not happy with the Hillaryism, but all the others suck worse. I voted for Thompson 4 years ago, fer Chrissake, my "purity" is greatly exaggerated.

income inequality will be worse.

yeah, but it will get worse more slowly, maybe. I just want the apocalyptic shit to hit after I die. (Good luck to the rest of you btw.)

Is it even that clear that Liu is really a "crook"? The campaign finance allegations are serious, but is Liu's direct knowlege/involvement clear?

even if the scandals didn't exist he was never going to get enough support to be a serious candidate

Seriously thinking about throwing him my vote. I don't think I even really care much btw DeBlasio and Quinn.

De Blasio up by 15 in latest Quinnipiac poll (which is a left-leaning poll yadayada)...he's 4 points away from avoiding a runoff! Quinn and Thompson have 21 and 20, respectively...this poll was done after the 2nd debate and in the midst of all CQ's useless endorsements.

that's kind of unbelievable

If there is a runoff, it's gonna be nassssty.

I don't think it's that unbelievable--for most everyone (me included), BDB is a cipher--but he's the only one who taps into the massive sense of "No Mas!" over the Bloomberg years. People are voting out of a general pissed-offness about the reversal of term limits, income inequality, the city becoming a tourist-yuppie-transplant haven, stop-and-frisk, et al...and it doesn't hurt that Weiner flamed out and BDB has a multi-racial family

there was a Times article a couple days ago about de Blasio pulling an unexpectedly high amount of the black vote. I saw one of Thompson's new attack ads yesterday. too little too late imo.

Plus Quinn is just so blah, even if you don't know much about her. I met her the other day, and I felt like I was shaking hands with my third grade teacher.

there was a Times article a couple days ago about deblasio pulling an unexpectedly high amount of the black vote.

this doesn't come across in the quinnipiac poll, where the black and white support for deblasio is 34% and 38%

there's a pretty enormous gender gap though, w/ 43% men supporting him vs. 18% quinn

I mean I guess it's unexpectedly high if we were assuming thompson would suck up all the support

bdb's share of the black vote is way up from the last poll, due in part to his son's Afro perhaps.

Weiner was getting a sizeable share of the black vote til Twitgasm #2, cuz... I dunno, u tell me.

I met her the other day, and I felt like I was shaking hands with my third grade teacher.

did the class wear earplugs?

yeah, but it will get worse more slowly, maybe.

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa

that's called the modern Democratic Party

as this thing goes on it's really shining a light on the division of opinion on Bloomberg between city elites (including all of the newspaper editorial boards that endorsed Quinn) and the rest of the population. like in the Times endorsement of Quinn their pitch is "she'll continue most of Bloomberg's policies, just with a few tweaks!" and that's supposed to be a positive. their write-up pushed me further toward de Blasio. and in the Times poll story today they acknowledge that people being fed up with Bloomberg is the reason de Blasio's ahead but it's kinda like they didn't see that coming?

upscale nyc liberals, and the times is their bible, live in as much of a bubble as tea partiers in the deep south...(i'm a lifelong new yorker and far far to the left)

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XXLD7yQX84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XXLD7yQX84

Last try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXLD7yQX84

Isn't there usually at least one traffic fatality a year at that parade? Of all the luck...

The Quinn papers are continuing to gun for de Blasio, but I read the Times piece about the outer-borough taxi plan and I will most certainly hold my nose when I vote for him. The lesson that always applies: THEY ALL SUCK.

http://gothamist.com/2013/09/01/times_daily_news_take_shots_at_fron.php

Quinnipiac puts de Blasio at 43%, Thompson 20, Quinn 18

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/nyregion/de-blasio-could-avoid-democratic-runoff-new-poll-suggests.html

what was highlight of the Kill Bill debate finale?

none, like watching paint dry

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTl_XaMIIAAb3St.jpg

Cats is my #2 after BdB, for sheer entertainment val

what a country, where a man that ugly can be worth $3b

wow, man

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/bloomberg-says-de-blasio-has-run-a-racist-campaign.html?_r=0

"I mean he’s making an appeal using his family to gain support"

ZOMG CAN U EVEN IMAGINE??? HIS FAMILY. FAMILY!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-de-blasio-attack-bloomberg-forgets-playing-up-jewish-heri

Can we plz shoot Bloombito and "NY Didn't Really Feel the Recession" Catz into space together?

I'm leaning Stringer, Thompson (Bklyn DA) and maybe Letitia James (publ advoc) in the other races? Anyone?

wow, piece-of-shit Al D'Amato was actually campaigning with Bill Thompson. What a stench.

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/09/shame-bill-deblasio-promises-satmar-that-in-exchange-for-votes-he-will-repeal-informed-consent-metzitzah-b-peh-123.html

That Bloomberg quote is just unbelievable. Makes me wish he was running just so I could vote against him.

via Doug Henwood, an audit Liu performed of the Economic Development Corporation (which apparently gives out a lot of tax breaks for not much result):
http://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/liu-edc-subsidizes-empty-job-promises/

re BdB's Hillary ties, I think P4reene has it right: "He worked for the Clintons, but he wasn’t enough of a raging prick to become part of the Clinton inner circle."

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/de_blasio_i_guess_the_pareene_endorsements/

I thought for 3 seconds about voting for the comedian Randy Credico for mayor.

So who exactly appointed Erc Adams as the new Brooklyn beep by acclamation? Thank God it's a meaningless office, eh.

I don't think deblahsio is gonna hit 40

that quinn might not even be in the runoff is pretty astounding

anything that hastens the end of identity politics re corporate shills is fine with me

i'm calling no runoff. and that putz stringer is going to win...cannot stand him

I'd vote for stringer over any of the mayoral candidates if he hadn't dropped

and I don't think he'll win

I feel we haven't seen the end of Spitzer's "flaws" (like strengthening john laws as guv, you fink) so i went for Stringer.

same here

Enough with the Markowitz robocalls for Hynes! Goodbye to you, big mouth.

lol landlines

well i like living apart from my phone most of the day, I'm a relic

NYT exit polls: Bill de Blasio 43, Thompson 23, and Quinn 18

take that, 'yankee fan'