{"id":466,"date":"2005-11-09T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/hizzoner_earns_second_term_as_ferrer_loses_unwinnable_race.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:58:03","slug":"hizzoner_earns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/hizzoner_earns.html","title":{"rendered":"Hizzoner Earns Second Term As Ferrer Loses Unwinnable Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael R. Bloomberg has won his second term as New York City mayor, overwhelmingly defeating Democratic candidate Fernando Ferrer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Michael R. Bloomberg was re-elected mayor of New York by a historic margin yesterday, beating back Fernando Ferrer’s attempt to build a multiethnic coalition and giving Republicans a fourth straight victory over a Democratic Party that had controlled city politics for much of the last century.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bloomberg’s 20-point margin of victory, based on unofficial total results, appeared to set a Republican record by smashing Rudolph W. Giuliani’s 16-point win in 1997 and even exceeding Fiorello H. La Guardia’s 19-point landslide in 1937. Mr. Ferrer seemed to have the lowest number of votes of a Democratic candidate for mayor, since 1917, when John F. Hylan won office with 313,956 votes.<\/p>\n

The outcome also consigned Democratic leaders, who were unusually united behind Mr. Ferrer, to a season of soul-searching about their political strategy as they face 16 years of exile from City Hall through the 2009 election.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the interest of learning from the past, know that whenever a party is “unusually united,” it probably means that they’re going down bigtime — just try Googling “unusually united Democratic pary” and “Kerry.” (Here, I’ll do it for you<\/a>! (In fact, you almost wonder if Times writer Patrick Healy is slipping in an inside joke here!)<\/p>\n

Buried in the piece is this sad nugget:<\/p>\n

With hindsight setting in fully, Ferrer aides said they concluded by late September that the race was not winnable<\/strong>. Public polling and some campaign surveys showed that, even if Mr. Ferrer managed to land every blow even as he championed a positive message of his own, the mayor was still likely to win.<\/em> [Emphasis sadly added!]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael R. Bloomberg has won his second term as New York City mayor, overwhelmingly defeating Democratic candidate Fernando Ferrer: Michael R. Bloomberg was re-elected mayor of New York by a historic margin yesterday, beating back Fernando Ferrer’s attempt to build a multiethnic coalition and giving Republicans a fourth straight victory over a Democratic Party that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}