{"id":7677,"date":"2015-11-17T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2015-11-17T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:32:07","slug":"stuff_white_people_like_filled_potholes_sturdier_remarks_public_radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/11\/stuff_white_people_like_filled_potholes_sturdier_remarks_public_radio.html","title":{"rendered":"Stuff White People Like: Filled Potholes, Sturdier Remarks, Public Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/18\/nyregion\/mayor-de-blasio-has-lost-support-of-white-new-yorkers-poll-finds.html\">Message: I care<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Just 28 percent of white New Yorkers approve of the Democratic mayor&#8217;s performance, and 59 percent now disapprove, up sharply from the start of his term, according to a citywide poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. Nearly half say that the city is a worse place to live under his watch &#8212; only 9 percent say it is better &#8212; and 51 percent say New York is now less safe, even as crime statistics reach historic lows.<\/p>\n<p>Over all, 52 percent of New Yorkers say the city is on the wrong track, including 62 percent of whites and 51 percent of Hispanics. Black residents are evenly split.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. de Blasio&#8217;s support among white residents has descended to a level so dismal that it has challenged a core assumption of his political strategy: that in a diversifying city, moderate white voters had lost much of their electoral influence, and that the mayor&#8217;s path to re-election runs through nonwhite communities.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s advisers are now making concerted efforts to recapture the support &#8212; or, at least, tamp down the opposition &#8212; of a group that, aides fear, could rally around a potential challenger in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Mr. de Blasio has paved roads on Staten Island; toughened his remarks on crime; become a regular presence on the radio station WNYC, a gathering point for white liberal New York; and scrapped his acidic criticism of his predecessor, former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message: I care: Just 28 percent of white New Yorkers approve of the Democratic mayor&#8217;s performance, and 59 percent now disapprove, up sharply from the start of his term, according to a citywide poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. Nearly half say that the city is a worse place to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}