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2016 Postmortem

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Sat Sep 7, 2013, 05:46 PM Sep 2013

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Here's how it's going in NYC mayoral primary campaigns -primary is Tues. Sept. 10

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/07/harlem-washington-heights-mayor_n_3880764.html

NEW YORK -- Remember the battleground states where Democrats' and Republicans' hopes for the White House rose and fell during recent presidential elections? Welcome to the New York City micro-equivalent, where the turf is smaller and the get-out-the-vote methods are old-fashioned, but the intensity for each vote runs just as high.

Minority neighborhoods in the five boroughs are perhaps the most hotly contested among the three leading Democratic candidates -- Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and ex-Comptroller Bill Thompson.