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| The real reason Mayor de Blasio is in trouble |
| 2014-12-24 |
| While supporters — and a compliant press — like to highlight the size of Bill de Blasio’s election victory in New York’s mayoral race in 2013 (at 73%), they often forget that turnout was a record low of 24%. De Blasio was elected with the support of about 18% of the city’s registered voters — less than 10% of the total population of the city. It’s with this kind of background that you should keep in mind when parsing pieces like this one in Politico, which tries to puzzle out “what went wrong”. If de Blasio ever had a mandate, it was a mandate for caution, not a mandate for sweeping change. It was a mandate to build your support through some incremental changes so that you’ll have a more solid backing in a second term. But de Blasio and the excited progressives around him read it differently. A lot of the media wants to frame this police slaying as a story of a white minority vs. a non-white majority. Given that one of the two slain cops was hispanic and the other was Asian-American, it isn’t at all clear that the “color coalition” is as solid or as deep as progressives would like it to be. And law and order remains a serious concern in many of the city’s immigrant communities. De Blasio is probably in deeper trouble than much of the mainstream media realizes. His mandate is weaker and his coalition more fissile than progressive journalists enchanted with the new progressive/majority-minority mantra can grasp. If law and order grows as an issue in New York, de Blasio will have more to worry about than the hostility of the police union. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #8 This is going to be what Washington Heights was for Dinkins. Crown Heights. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2014-12-24 15:42 |
| #7 World class jackass for a world class city. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-12-24 14:03 |
| #6 This says more about the self absorbed New Yorkers than De Blasio. They are living their payback for not caring enough to exercise their democratic responsibility. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-12-24 13:18 |
| #5 Another thing that people commented about at the time was if the racial composition of the electorate had been the same as under Guliani, the Republican would have won. Very simply, White voters stayed home in both 2012 and 2013. These same voters now realize there are very real consequences to not voting. This is going to be what Washington Heights was for Dinkins. Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2014-12-24 12:35 |
| #4 Does it have anything to do with him being a part of the radical Progressive street rabble; an apparatchik like Obama, Holder, Sharpton, and Jackson? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-12-24 10:57 |
| #3 The emotional blow? The emotional Blow! Blasio is a clam, actively getting his hey hey ho ho on. He is a shitmonger. Dad isn't home for Christmas this year. His boss thought it would be fun to play hippie protester. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-12-24 10:29 |
| #2 Freudian projection of their own racism. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-24 10:22 |
| #1 Not sure "if only they'd killed white cops" articles are going to fly with me... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-12-24 09:54 |