Why have Republicans won as mayor of New York 4 times in a row?

[billbuckhead]

Why have Republicans won as mayor of New York 4 times in a row in an overwhelmingly Democratic city?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. you can ask that about other major cities too but I think it has to do with Park Ave crowd and

the upper east siders

[SOS]

20. In regard to Giuliani

He lost Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn twice.
It was Staten Island that went overwhelmingly for Giuliani.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Bloomberg was a Democrat. He just switched to a less-crowded R primary.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. that's right

[russian33]

6. yeah, just so he can win...wasn't Rudy a democrat at some point too?

[TwilightGardener]

8. Yep--I think both became Repubs out of political convenience.

Rudy is now barely a Repub, and Bloomberg is an Indie.

[robbedvoter]

17. STOP THAT! he switched after the stolen election - that makes him GOP enough!

He invited RNC in NYC, ordered spying on activists, arrests, kept the park from us - when will the whitewashing of this creep ever stop? he was as much of a dem as Theresa LePore was!

[nonconformist]

3. I don't know, but New York republicans are different from the rest of the country, for the most part

They tend to be socially liberal but fiscally conservative.

[C_U_L8R]

5. It would seem quite befuddling...

but as a NYer, you should see some of the knuckleheads
the Dems have put up to run for mayor. Geesh.
It's not that we lost, we just didn't deserve the job.

[Renew Deal]

7. David Dinkens was just that bad.

:hide:

[AlCzervik]

9. and Massachusetts has had more than one pube Governor.

[book_worm]

10. becuz dems don't seem to put up strong enough candidates.

[robbedvoter]

16. Mark Green was fine. A good one in 2005 was sidelined for Ferrer (Edwards style)

by the Bloomberg controled media

[Stephanie]

11. Because the party machine has a stranglehold on everything

The infighting is so nasty we wind up with the worst possible candidates.

[tritsofme]

12. Probably a desire to have some gridlock.

And keep all the facets of power out of the hands of one party.

[TomClash]

13. DC 37 supported Giuliani in 97 and Bloomberg in 05

That's 1/3 of the city's municipal unions.

Bloomberg would be a moderate Dem in the rest of the country.

White Dems weren't too keen on Freddy Ferrer in 2005.

No one was really keen on Mark Green in 2001.

The Crown Heights riots sank David Dinkins (a fine man and a much better Mayor than people gave him credit for) in 1993.

Messinger was a weak, under-financed candidate in 1997.

NY Republicans are mostly moderate Dems and are hated by the Bush White House because they sometimes get union support.

[robbedvoter]

14. They have the media. people who come out to protest, don't show up to vote

Bloomberg pretty much won by default (+ some dirty tricks by Sharpton in 2001)
Rudy rode the over the top backlash against Dinkins after some racial incidents in Crown Hights - then took credit for what Dinkins dod (lower the crime by adding cops in the street).

[THUNDER HANDS]

15. because NYC democrats are laughably bad

[robbedvoter]

18. I'd say, reading this thread: laughably confused. Tabloids mush our brains.

[Smarmie Doofus]

19. RW DEMS peel off and support the GOP.

NYS DEMS are way to the right of the nat'l party. The state convention actually *defeated* a motion calling for Iraq withdrawal in '06.

A myriad of RW DEMS have been successful in NY: Koch , Moynihan, Schumer, Clinton. Hawkish foreign policy is key.

Has to do with demographics and income.