NYC MAYORAL RACE

by Bob Walsh

The Democratic Primary for Mayor (which is the same thing as the actual election usually) will take place on June 22.  There are 13 candidates.  Two of them, Eric Adams and Andrew Yang, are both running at just a tad under 20% with everybody else way back in the pack.

Interestingly enough CRIME has been a big issue.  The candidates are actually talking about it and acknowledging that it is out there, as opposed to the current mayor, Red Bill deBlasio, who is completely clueless or doesn't give a shit.  Sometimes it is hard to tell which.  

The election will be a ranked-choice system.  The Manhattan Institute has done a projection based on polling going out thru ten rounds of counting, showing Adams as the eventual winner with 52% to Yang's 48%.  (The survey was only 144 voters, which I had always thought was too small a number to produce reliable results.)  Yang has a vey high favorability rating, but also a high unfavorability rating.  Adams favorable rating is only slightly below Yang's, but his unfavorable rating is much lower.  

More than 75% of registered voters did NOT bother to watch any part of the recent mayoral debate.  

About half of the primary voters consider public safety to be either the #1 or #2 issue for them.  Only 18% approve of defunding the police and half believe the cops are doing a good job.  About 80% of those polled say the city would be better off if the government were more socialist.