Reply #8: Challenges indeed [View All]

NYC's mayor may have come after 9/11 -- but what about pre-9/11? Bloomberg is the third term of a republican mayor, not the first or even second. And this is in a city where dems outnumber republicans by 5 to 1, for crying out loud. It should never have even been close. Is there a reciprocal example of three consecutive terms of Dem-mayors in a city with 5 republicans to every 1 democrat?

And don't discount the rural republican vote. They were the reason Hillary won. If she had stayed in NYC, she would surely have lost. A poster yesterday said there are no Blue states, only red states with blue metropolitan centers.

Part of the reason Pataki won re-election was because the labor unions backed him. Why are the republicans able to peel off historically Dem-pillars, like labor, while Dems often don't manage to do the same? We need to.