NYC Mayoral Election 2013

Discussion in 'Elections' started by Q*bert Jones III, Aug 22, 2013.

  1. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

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  2. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
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    #52 Q*bert Jones III, Oct 22, 2013
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    Those are Soviet-style numbers.

    Which makes sense with DeBlasio and all.
     
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  3. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

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    New York Times/Siena poll shows no movement whatsoever...

    Bill de Blasio (D): 68%
    Joe Lhota (R): 23%
    Adolfo Carrión (I): 2%
    Undecided: 6%

    De Blasio in Position to Win Mayor's Race by Historic Margin - N.Y. Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/n...ic-margin-poll-shows.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
    Bill de Blasio for Mayor - N.Y. Times editorial
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/bill-de-blasio-for-mayor.html
     
  4. GiuseppeSignori

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    Looks like there's a good chance de Blasio will even take Staten Island.
     
  5. riverplate

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    #55 riverplate, Nov 4, 2013
    Last edited: Nov 4, 2013
    A new low for the New York Post...

    [​IMG]

    De Blasio Visited Communist USSR in College - N.Y. Post
    http://nypost.com/2013/11/03/de-blasio-visited-communist-ussr-in-college/
    So how is this a "secret" trip if the information has been out there??!!

    I'd rather listen to de Blasio chat about this than continually listen to Lhota drone on about -- Cliché Alert everybody! -- "My father was a cop. My grandfather was a fireman. My other grandfather was a cab driver. I was the first one in my family to go to college." YAWN! That is, of course, when he isn't rambling on about keeping Generalissimo Raymond Kelly as Police Czar -- with his paper shredder and fresh copies of the U.S. Constitution to feed it.

    Mercifully, the election is tomorrow and Lhota (like Christine Quinn after the Dem primary) will quickly drop off the face of the earth.
     
  6. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

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    Oh come on, that doesn't even come close!

    I'll be happy when Lhota's stupid commercials about the city reverting to a crack den are off my TV.
     
  7. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

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    Seriously. They've played the race card, the commie card, and the crime card and failed badly on all three. What's next, the suffragette card?
     
  8. TheSlipperyOne

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    De Blasio has been called the winner.
     
  9. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
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    Congratulations neighbor. Brooklyn owns this bitch!
     
  10. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

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    Great night!

    Official tally:
    Bill de Blasio (D): 752,604 - 73.34%
    Joe Lhota (R): 249,121 - 24.28%

    Quote of the night comes from this N.Y. Daily News article:
    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/lhota-optimistic-impending-defeat-article-1.1507881

    What??!!
     
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  11. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

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  12. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

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  13. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
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    Rick Wilson can blow me. Has NYC ever voted for someone out of fear? I certainly can't remember it.
     
  14. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    Huh! You people are mere beginners...

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  15. Naughtius Maximus

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    Diane Abbott, (who's thinking of running for Mayor of London), comments about Blasio and the lessons to be learned over here...

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-new-labour

    It goes without saying that De Blasio was not originally the candidate of the Democratic establishment. That was an extremely experienced and moderate local politician called Christine Quinn. She even had the endorsement of the New York Times, but Democratic primary voters proved to be uninterested in the safe party loyalist. So De Blasio, having won the Democratic primary, swept to victory with every demographic of voters. It turned out that New Yorkers – black, white, Hispanic middle, class or poor – were ready to hear a message about the unacceptable inequality in the city and the need for the rich to pay their share. And he won by a landslide.

    Rightwing Democrats and the Republicans are already prophesying Armageddon. The platform De Blasio ran on was contrary to every piece of accepted political wisdom of both the Democratic political elite in America and its Labour equivalent on this side of the Atlantic. But the right wing of the Labour party has prided itself on learning from the Democrats, since the earliest days of Tony Blair and New Labour. Will they be so keen to learn from Bill de Blasio?
     
  16. riverplate

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  17. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

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    I switched political parties so that I could vote for DeBlasio in the Democratic Primary and the very first thing he does is hire a goddamned ********ing fascist to run the police?

    I'm switching back to the Greens.
     
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  18. ceezmad

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    A fascist that gets results it seems.

    Is Mussolini available to run Chicago Metra?
     
  19. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
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    Well, Ray Kelly will need a job
     
  20. riverplate

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    "Will Not Wait" on Inequality, de Blasio Tells New York - N.Y. Times
     
  21. JBigjake

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    You really need to register as a Green? Do they have primaries?
     
  22. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

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    The parties are free to choose their candidates however they see fit. The Greens do it with a Native American drum circle instead of a primary.
     
  23. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    That's a great picture, isn't it:)

    Love that lad's hair. It reminds me of this fella...

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    If anyone else recognises him.
     
  24. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
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  25. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    ... and new wave British heavy metal apparently. There was supposedly a mosh pit at the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, (although no moshing going on it seems),...



    Not exactly my sort of stuff but there we are.
     

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