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Bill de Blasio shared a laugh with the Brooklyn borough president, Marty
Markowitz, right, at a campaign stop on Tuesday.
By MICHAEL BARBARO and DAVID W. CHEN
Published: November 5, 2013 47 Comments
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Bill de Blasio, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an
obscure office into the fiery voice of New York’s disillusionment with a
new gilded age, was elected the city’s 109th mayor on Tuesday, according to
exit polls.
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De Blasio Dem. 71.9%
Lhota Rep. 26.7
Others 1.4
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How the vote broke down in the race for mayor of New York City.
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His overwhelming victory, stretching from the working-class precincts of
central Brooklyn to the suburban streets of northwest Queens, amounted to a
forceful rejection of the hard-nosed, business-minded style of governance
that reigned at City Hall for the past two decades and a sharp leftward turn
for the nation’s largest metropolis.
Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat who is the city’s public advocate, defeated his
Republican opponent, Joseph J. Lhota, a former chairman of the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, by a wide margin.
Exit polls conducted by Edison Research suggested that the sweep of his
victory cut across all of New York’s traditional divides. He won support
from voters regardless of race, gender, age, education, religion or income,
according to the exit poll.
The lopsided outcome represented the triumph of a populist message over a
formidable résumé in a campaign that became a referendum on an entire era,
starting with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and ending with the incumbent mayor
, Michael R. Bloomberg.
Throughout the race, Mr. de Blasio overshadowed his opponent by giving voice
to New Yorkers’ rising frustrations with income inequality, aggressive
policing tactics and lack of affordable housing, and by declaring that the
ever-improving city need not leave so many behind.
To an unusual degree, he relied on his own biracial family to connect with
an increasingly diverse electorate, electrifying voters with a television
commercial featuring his charismatic teenage son, Dante, who has a towering
Afro.
In interviews on Election Day, voters across the five boroughs said that his
message had channeled their deep-seated grievances and yearning for change.
Darrian Smith, a 48-year-old custodian at a public school in Brownsville,
Brooklyn, said his vote for Mr. de Blasio was a plea to end the widespread
police searches, known as the stop-and-frisk policy, that have repeatedly
ensnared him and his African-American neighbors.
“When I look at Mr. de Blasio, I see a bright light at the end of the
tunnel,” he said.
Jon Kopita, an educational consultant from Greenwich Village, called Mr. de
Blasio the best hope for slowing the growth of luxury condominiums that
crowd his Manhattan neighborhood.
“If it just becomes a rich person’s city, then I might as well just go
live somewhere else,” he said. “It’s time to go in a different direction.”
The traditional Republican Party playbook that had propelled Mr. Giuliani
and Mr. Bloomberg to victory in an overwhelmingly Democratic city —
reaching across party lines to voters worried about crime, education and
quality of life — felt outdated this campaign season. Even traditionally
conservative-leaning neighborhoods fell to Mr. de Blasio.
He will become the first Democrat to lead New York in a generation, ending
his party’s two-decade-long exile from City Hall.
“It’s huge,” said John H. Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban
Research at the City University of New York, who added that Mr. de Blasio
had shown that Democrats were again willing to entrust City Hall to one of
their own.
“Liberalism,” Mr. Mollenkopf said, “is not dead in New York City.”
Mr. Lhota, a 57-year-old former deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration
and onetime Wall Street banker, had entered the race with great fanfare and
promise: as a moderate Republican, a battle-tested manager and an outsize
personality, known for quoting verbatim from “The Godfather” and posting
tipsy messages on Twitter.
But the first-time candidate proved listless on the stump, prone to monotone
delivery. His attacks on Mr. de Blasio, as a “socialist” who would invite
a return to crime-riddled streets, had a shrill quality. And despite his
deep ties to the business world, he struggled to persuade donors to take a
chance on him in the face of daunting poll numbers.
In the end, he raised just $3.4 million, a third of the amount collected by
Mr. de Blasio.
“He just hit a brick wall,” said Phil Ragusa, the chairman of the
Republican Party in Queens. “You have to be well funded. That is a reality.
Joe was not.”
Mr. Lhota’s most ardent supporters conceded that he had failed to make a
convincing case for himself. “He just wasn’t compelling enough,” said
Regina Kessler, 58, who lives on the Upper East Side.
On Tuesday, Mr. Lhota put on a brave face. He ate his favorite breakfast of
sausage, eggs and cheese on a bagel; his wife donned her good-luck red,
white and blue scarf; and he told a radio host that he was busy writing a
victory speech. But privately he had no illusions, acknowledging that he
planned to conduct what he called a post-campaign “autopsy” to figure out
what went wrong.
Like many New Yorkers, he was taken about by Mr. de Blasio’s improbable
rise. Raised a Boston Red Sox fan in Massachusetts, Mr. de Blasio embraced
the cause of leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua as a young man, married a
woman who once identified as lesbian, and has never managed an organization
larger than 300 people.
But Mr. de Blasio, a longtime political operative who ran campaigns for
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles B. Rangel, oversaw a highly disciplined
political machine that committed remarkably few errors and took little for
granted, in stark contrast with Mr. Lhota.
On Election Day, Mr. de Blasio had amassed around 10,000 volunteers at 40
locations to turn out voters; Mr. Lhota recruited about 500 workers at nine
locations.
Exit polls showed that the coordinated outreach paid off, with Mr. de Blasio
capturing the majority of votes in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and
Queens.
Largely overlooked on Tuesday was the man who has dominated the city for the
past 12 years and whose legacy was a divisive theme of the campaign: Mayor
Bloomberg.
The mayor quietly cast his vote inside an Upper East Side school, amid
reminders that his time at the pinnacle of municipal power was drawing to a
close. When Mr. Bloomberg, dressed in a crimson tie and a crisp winter coat,
showed up, the poll worker had a question. What was his first name, again?
As he left, clutching a loaf of banana bread and a plastic cup of coffee, a
little boy waved at his king-size S.U.V., and yelled.
“Bye, bye, mayor!”
Reporting was contributed by Javier C. Hernández, Thomas Kaplan, Kate
Taylor and Julie Turkewitz. | S******8
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