Welcome to de Blasio’s New York: Everything You Need to Know About Last Night’s Elections
Welcome Mayor Bill de Blasio!
Going into yesterday’s election, a landslide victory seemed like a certainty for Bill de Blasio, but would low voter turnout and glitches in the Scantron machines at some polling places mean a less than decisive win for de Blasio? No! Absolutely not. In fact, de Blasio coasted to victory with an approximately 49-percentage point win over Republican Joe Lhota, giving the mayor-elect a solid mandate with which to take this city into a new direction. Will that direction be one of progressive policies that could even be called socialist by some? We can only hope, can’t we? The reality is, though, that de Blasio might be one of the first New York mayors in a long time to embrace the words “liberal” and “progressive,” but we don’t really know what will happen once he’s in office. After all, a lot of people thought Obama would be a big, old peace-loving socialist, and, well, he hasn’t even managed to pull off socialized medicine all that well, now has he?
Still, though, it was hard to deny that there was a feeling at the de Blasio victory party (held in the Park Slope Armory’s YMCA) that a much-needed change had come. There was dancing and hugging and partying and you just know that everyone was having a much better time in Brooklyn than they would have had at a Lhota victory party, if for no other reason than the fact that Lhota’s election night headquarters were in Murray Hill, a place which Virginia Smith aptly portrays as “a nondescript, message-less loser neighborhood, which also has good Indian food.” Goodbye, Joe Lhota. I’m glad you didn’t win, even though I’ll never forget about that time you called me one of your “fav writers.” Now, go back to retweeting Drunk Hulk!