{"id":4959,"date":"2009-06-09T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2009-06-09T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:52:26","slug":"if_you_cant_beat_him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/if_you_cant_beat_him.html","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Beat Him . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/09\/nyregion\/09poll.html\">you can at least make him earn it<\/a>, and spend every last cent of that $100 million in the process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Despite generally broad approval for the job Michael R. Bloomberg has done as mayor, a majority of New Yorkers say that he does not deserve another term in office and that they would like to give someone else a chance, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Cornell University and NY1 News.<\/p>\n<p>With anxiety rising over a difficult economy, few surveyed have a lot of confidence in Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s ability to lead the city out of the recession, a troubling sign for a mayor who cited his financial acumen as the rationale for his undoing of the term limits law that otherwise would have forced him from office.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, some 51 percent say that the city is on the wrong track, while 40 percent say it is going in the right direction. <\/p>\n<p>And though Mr. Bloomberg has sought to elevate his image nationally and internationally as a bold-thinking mayor with a record of innovation and results, New Yorkers in the survey struggle when asked to identify any particular achievement of his tenure. More than a third of those polled could not offer any answer when asked what was the best thing Mr. Bloomberg has done since he became mayor almost eight years ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . you can at least make him earn it, and spend every last cent of that $100 million in the process: Despite generally broad approval for the job Michael R. Bloomberg has done as mayor, a majority of New Yorkers say that he does not deserve another term in office and that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-survey_saysla_encuesta_dice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}