NYC'13: Congrats to Mayor de Blasio

[PolitiJunkie]

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

[Beet]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/14/ignore-anthony-weiner-heres-what-matters-in-the-nyc-mayors-race/?hpid=z9

Here's a write up about their respective positions, it doesn't include Liu (or Weiner).

[Maxwell]

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

All I know about Liu is he wants to legalize marijuana, and he has some campaign finance issues.

[free my dawg]

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

I'd say your order's about right. Don't quite know where Liu stands.

[Eraserhead]

Wow, this is pretty exciting! The most competent (and most liberal) candidate takes the lead!

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

My unscientific guesstimate:

1. de Blasio (He's reasonably far-left by mainstream American standards on most of the issues as far as I can tell; I especially like his animal rights positions.)

2. Liu (He's been a fierce critic of Bloomberg, don't know as much about him as the others though.)

3. Weiner (He used to be pretty liberal but does he still have political positions? He's always talking about or arguing over sexting/penis pictures when I see him now.)

4. Thompson (He's about as liberal as Weiner I guess. You could probably even flip them, whatever.)

5. Quinn (She's essentially a Bloomberg crony. She's a corporate Democrat and easily the worst of the bunch.)

[traininthedistance]

Wow, this is pretty exciting! The most competent (and most liberal) candidate takes the lead!

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

My unscientific guesstimate:

1. de Blasio (He's reasonably far-left by mainstream American standards on most of the issues as far as I can tell; I especially like his animal rights positions.)

2. Liu (He's been a fierce critic of Bloomberg, don't know as much about him as the others though.)

3. Weiner (He used to be pretty liberal but does he still have political positions? He's always talking about or arguing over sexting/penis pictures when I see him now.)

4. Thompson (He's about as liberal as Weiner I guess. You could probably even flip them, whatever.)

5. Quinn (She's essentially a Bloomberg crony. She's a corporate Democrat and easily the worst of the bunch.)

Actually Liu is the worst of the bunch, on account of being a corrupt liar.  Liu and Weiner are the two candidates here that I would not vote for, no matter what.

[bedstuy]

Wow, this is pretty exciting! The most competent (and most liberal) candidate takes the lead!

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

My unscientific guesstimate:

1. de Blasio (He's reasonably far-left by mainstream American standards on most of the issues as far as I can tell; I especially like his animal rights positions.)

2. Liu (He's been a fierce critic of Bloomberg, don't know as much about him as the others though.)

3. Weiner (He used to be pretty liberal but does he still have political positions? He's always talking about or arguing over sexting/penis pictures when I see him now.)

4. Thompson (He's about as liberal as Weiner I guess. You could probably even flip them, whatever.)

5. Quinn (She's essentially a Bloomberg crony. She's a corporate Democrat and easily the worst of the bunch.)

Actually Liu is the worst of the bunch, on account of being a corrupt liar.  Liu and Weiner are the two candidates here that I would not vote for, no matter what.

Liu is terrible and corrupt.  But, he has been using a populist/liberal sales pitch in this primary race.

[Eraserhead]

I'd still take Liu over Quinn any day.

So did any of you guys watch the debate? I haven't yet, here's a link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YELrE7BgkRk

Reactions/Analysis:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/deblasio-nyc-debate-clear-winner-weiner-article-1.1426186

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/13/nyc-mayoral-debate-gets-ugly-between-weiner-quinn/

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/democrats-nyc-mayors-race-hold-key-debate-19943483

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/nyc-mayor-debate-anthony-weiner-95509.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/mayor-debate-weiner-quinn-de-blasio-new-york.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/nyregion/debating-live-on-tv-for-the-first-time-mayoral-rivals-take-aim-at-quinn.html

[Lief 🗽]

Damn, de Blasio is tall.

[badgate]

If there is a De Blasio / Quinn runoff, they will need to give Quinn a stool or something.

[Eraserhead]

Do you guys think de Blasio can beat Thompson in the runoff?

[Tender Branson]

Do you guys think de Blasio can beat Thompson in the runoff?

Quinnipiac says yes.

And Quinnipiac was already right on the NJ primary just a few days ago.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

I am glad that the contest is between folks experienced in city govt rather then simply a celebrity contest...

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Black voters just don't seem very interested in Thompson, and De Blasio's used his family so aggressively that I doubt Thompson will make up much more ground.

I'm thinking a De Blasio/Quinn run-off, followed by a very competitive Lhota/De Blasio general election. Lhota will pick up a LOT of Quinn supporters.

[publicunofficial]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324139404579014934170825144.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection

The new Marist poll (Taken on behalf of the WSJ and NBC) essentially confirms Quinnipac's findings. From their previous poll, Quinn is down 2 and de Blasio is up 7.


Bill de Blasio - 24%
Christine Quinn - 24%
Bill Thompson - 18%
Anthony Weiner - 11%
John Liu - 5%


de Blasio's surge is partially due to black support, as he has moved from 10% support to 20% support among African-Americans with Thompson taking the majority of the rest.



de Blasio beats Quinn in a runoff 44-42, Thompson 44-36. Thompson also beats Quinn 44-43.


And because people forget that the Republicans ARE trying to win this: Joe Lhota is dominating the Republican primary and will likely be the nominee.

[Lief 🗽]

Excellent. Let's ride this de Blasiomentum to the finish line!

[Tender Branson]

And because people forget that the Republicans ARE trying to win this: Joe Lhota is dominating the Republican primary and will likely be the nominee.

Quinnipiac's latest poll disagrees:

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Problem:

"The survey includes 101 New York City likely Republican Primary Voters with a margin of error of +/- 9.8 percentage points."

[Mr.Phips]

Black voters just don't seem very interested in Thompson, and De Blasio's used his family so aggressively that I doubt Thompson will make up much more ground.

I'm thinking a De Blasio/Quinn run-off, followed by a very competitive Lhota/De Blasio general election. Lhota will pick up a LOT of Quinn supporters.

No Republican who isn't either Rudy Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg is going to get more than 40% in citywide in NYC.

[Eraserhead]

So Stringer seems dead in the water now, huh? The blacks love Spitzer.

[RogueBeaver]

Long New Yorker feature on Bloomberg's legacy.

[bedstuy]

Wow, this is pretty exciting! The most competent (and most liberal) candidate takes the lead!

Can someone rank DiBlasio, Weiner, Thompson, and Quinn on a spectrum from most liberal to most centrist/moderate? Feel free to include Liu if you know enough about his ideology to do so.

My unscientific guesstimate:

1. de Blasio (He's reasonably far-left by mainstream American standards on most of the issues as far as I can tell; I especially like his animal rights positions.)

2. Liu (He's been a fierce critic of Bloomberg, don't know as much about him as the others though.)

3. Weiner (He used to be pretty liberal but does he still have political positions? He's always talking about or arguing over sexting/penis pictures when I see him now.)

4. Thompson (He's about as liberal as Weiner I guess. You could probably even flip them, whatever.)

5. Quinn (She's essentially a Bloomberg crony. She's a corporate Democrat and easily the worst of the bunch.)

On second thought, I would say Liu is the most far left candidate in the race.  At least, he seems to be getting the support of the far left elements in the city.  Charles Barron endorsed him and many of the anti-white/Nation of Islam types that supported Barron in my neighborhood support Liu. 

[Lief 🗽]

debates currently happening: http://gothamist.com/2013/08/21/watch_nyc_democratic_mayoral_hopefu.php

quinn is on THE ATTACK

so is Thompson

everyone hates de blasio

[Lief 🗽]

quinn and thompson joining together to attack de blasio

wtf

[Lief 🗽]

weiner still going after quinn, nice

[Niemeyerite]

Wow, this debate is very fun.