Democratic Primary: No Word Yet on Who Gets to Lose to Bloomberg
We don't think we've ever been handed quite so many flyers in one day as we were yesterday. Even at 9 at night, just a half-hour before the polls closed in the Democratic primary, we were offered literally dozens of pieces of political propaganda on our walk home down Eighth Avenue — and, surprisingly, not all of them were from the Ellner campaign's strategically deployed cute young boys.
But despite all that cajoling and inveighing and, well, politicking, there was nevertheless unusually low turnout yesterday, the papers report. There was also unusually low excitement: All the expected folks won, comfortably. Gotbaum was reelected public advocate. Front-runner Stringer was elected Manhattan borough president. Morgy and Hynes were reelected DAs. Ferrer came in first for mayor, Weiner second, and no one else anywhere close.
The only interesting question is whether Ferrer got 40 percent of the vote. If he did, he avoids a runoff; if not, it's him and Weiner in another round. Right now Freddy's got something like 39.959 percent of the vote, and we'll have to wait to see if absentees put him over the top and spate him another step in his quest to lose to Bloomberg.
We're on the edge of our seats.
