Sandanista loving radical dirty commie has 50 point lead over opponent

[cali]

hey, good luck with that meme Lhota. It's really working out well for you, huh?

With five weeks until Election Day, the race for New York City mayor is shaping up to be a landslide, with Bill de Blasio holding a 50-point lead over his Republican opponent, Joseph J. Lhota, in a poll released on Thursday by Quinnipiac University.

Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, received the support of 71 percent of likely voters, compared with 21 percent for Mr. Lhota, the poll found. The Independence Party candidate, Adolfo Carrión Jr., received 2 percent.

The poll, conducted from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, showed Mr. de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, with a comfortable lead among white voters and an enormous one among blacks and Hispanics. Only 5 percent of likely voters remained undecided, and less than a tenth of those who favored Mr. de Blasio said there was a good chance they would change whom they supported.

“These numbers say Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s kids can start arguing over who gets the best bedroom in Gracie Mansion,” Maurice Carroll, the director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/nyregion/de-blasio-has-enormous-lead-over-lhota-poll-finds.html?_r=0

[JHB]

1. Did someone actually bring the Sandinistas into it?

Can't get to the link now, so can't check for myself yet.

If that was your embellishment, I like it.

[cali]

2. I can't take credit for the Sandanista attack

He's been attacked wildly for his work in Nicaragua.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/nyregion/rivals-attack-de-blasio-on-past-support-for-sandinistas.html

[JHB]

5. Well, everything changed after the Nicaraguan Army invaded Harlingen, Texas

...or was that "Red Dawn"?

I'm sure this will weigh heavily on the voters of NYC in their mayoral race, considering how the city was a veritable bastion of supper for the contras and Reagan, nary a protest in sight.

for those who can't tell already...

[n2doc]

3. So much for the meme that America is more conservative than ever

Perhaps we are only stuck with conservative choices, and when offered a liberal....

[cali]

4. I do believe that the U.S. is conservative

in many ways and in many regions. NYC is not one of them, despite having elected repukes as mayors for umpteen years.

Seriously, it's not some simple equation, whether the U.S. is conservative or liberal. It's a complex thing, but if I had to come down on whether overall, this country is more conservative or more liberal, I'd go with conservative.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. There's been an awakening here. Probably due to the Wall Street catastrophe.

A lot of people that were being led around by the nose by the billionaire RW tabloids and Bloomberg's 100-million dollar tv blitzes are beginning to be able to put two and two together.

And who said our school system was no good?

[DireStrike]

8. NY repubs are far less conservative than national ones

Except for Giuliani. I don't know what anybody was thinking when that happened.

But Smarmie Doofus is right. The city has been driven further left than before. I think OWS and all the protests and far-left organizing really did affect this.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Then I guess I better buy tickets to Caracas in anticipation of the inevitable military coup here.

Oh... I almost forgot; military coups are no longer "military coups".

Frankly, I'm lost in the euphemisms and Orwellianisms. What are we supposed to call them now?