NYC'13: Congrats to Mayor de Blasio

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Looks like Thompson won the hipster vote. Williamsburg was by far his best area.

South Williamsburg.  Satmar Hasidim don't count as hipsters.

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Looks like Thompson won the hipster vote. Williamsburg was by far his best area.

South Williamsburg.  Satmar Hasidim don't count as hipsters.

They were Hasidim before it was cool.

And maybe their hatred of the state of Israel could be considered ironic.

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If de Blasio does win and governs like he campaigned (I suspect he will be much more moderate and really would be that "progressive"), I think the high end home prices for NYC suburbs will surge as the high income residents in NYC might just move to these high end suburbs. 

No. 

What's with DeBlasio apparently winning Borough Park? I was also going to ask about all the Thompson strength in Staten Island. Interestingly DeBlasio won the North Shore, though doesn't that also have lots of Park Slope/Greenwich Village style liberals?

De Blasio represented some of Boro Park in the City council, right?

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Did de Blasio win every borough?

Looks like it. Although Staten Island is very close. Italians liked Thompson.

From my rough calculation of the numbers listed on the neighborhood map, I agree BDB won in narrowly over Thompson. Big margins on the North Shore did it for him.

Speaking as someone who remembers NYC's race-based tribal politics of the late 80's & early 90's, these results are such a sea change. The Williamsburg Hasidim voting overwhelmingly for a black guy. Ditto for the white neighborhoods on the Island. Bensonhurst is now a largely Asian neighborhood. The white Italian cleans up in Harlem and other black neighborhoods against said black opponent. Neat!

I totally agree.  I've lived in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn for the past few years.  I see glimpses of the old style of black racial politics, the nation of Islam guys, the corrupt do-nothing politicians, mau-mauing and posturing being put above actual results, the politics of victimhood and blaming the establishment or white people instead of working together to build something.

But, that attitude among actual people is pretty much gone, despite what Bill O'Reilly says.  And in New York City, we've become such a diverse city that identity politics can't really work in city wide elections.

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Could Thompson just concede and let us avoid this pointless process?

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Guys, Bill de Blasio is the Democratic nominee. I know you Pubs and right-wing Democrats have a hard time grappling with that, but it's what happened, so stop theorizing about these bizarre scenarios in which de Blasio ends up at 39.99% and Bill Thompson miraculously swoops in and wins the runoff, sparing the city from a stoopid librul and fostering a victory for apologetic liberalism. You guys are literally the only 8 people in the country espousing these Waiting-for-Godot-esque theories, so just stop, go take a bike ride or go skydiving or something.

I think it's pretty clear that De Blasio is a near lock to be the next mayor.  We can start retooling the mayor's office for a 6'5" liberal, lowering the office chair and replacing the bottled water with soda. 

How much taller than Michael Bloomberg is Bill De Blasio?  1 foot?

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Guys, Bill de Blasio is the Democratic nominee. I know you Pubs and right-wing Democrats have a hard time grappling with that, but it's what happened, so stop theorizing about these bizarre scenarios in which de Blasio ends up at 39.99% and Bill Thompson miraculously swoops in and wins the runoff, sparing the city from a stoopid librul and fostering a victory for apologetic liberalism. You guys are literally the only 8 people in the country espousing these Waiting-for-Godot-esque theories, so just stop, go take a bike ride or go skydiving or something.

I think it's pretty clear that De Blasio is a near lock to be the next mayor.  We can start retooling the mayor's office for a 6'5" liberal, lowering the office chair and replacing the bottled water with soda. 

How much taller than Michael Bloomberg is Bill De Blasio?  1 foot?

9 Inches. Bloomberg is 5'8; de Blasio is 6'5.

Michael Bloomberg is not 5'8".  More like 5'6", 5'7 on a good day.

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Why the deBlasio inevitability?  Did everyone who voted for Giuliani and Bloomberg move to Hoboken?

Thompson's 09 Mayoral Campaign <<<<< De Blasio's 2013 Mayoral Campaign

Whatever Lhota's campaign will spend <<<< $100 million dollars that Bloomberg spent

Patience with Bloomberg era today <<<<<< Patience with Bloomberg era in 2009

And even with all that, 2009 was a fairly close race.

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Lhota's favorables (29-41) are bad; de Blasio's are great (65-19). Not sure there's much else left to do here but wait until election day.

The former head of the MTA isn't popular!?  Inconceivable!  You would think being associated with fare hikes, rats and a faint smell of urine would send your poll numbers skyrocketing.

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Lhota's favorables (29-41) are bad; de Blasio's are great (65-19). Not sure there's much else left to do here but wait until election day.

The former head of the MTA isn't popular!?  Inconceivable!  You would think being associated with fare hikes, rats and a faint smell of urine would send your poll numbers skyrocketing.

You jest, but I honestly believe that Joe Lhota would be more popular if he was running on his MTA experience and running away from his Giuliani connections, rather than the other way around.  He actually wasn't half bad as the head of the MTA, except of course for the whole leaving them after ten months (or so) to run for mayor bit.

No, I agree that Lhota did a fine job with the MTA.  It's just something where you only notice when the subway is messed up and take it for granted when it works efficiently.

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Too bad about James winning.  The silver lining is that the Public Advocate doesn't really do anything so it will be right in Tish James' wheelhouse.

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Will de Blasio move into the Gracie Mansion or will he pull a Jerry Brown and live in a modest apartment close to City Hall ?

He said he's going to live at Gracie Mansion.  But, if he wasn't planing on it, I assume he would just live at his current residence in Brooklyn.