And The Winners of the New York City Mayoral Primaries Are...
... those who decided to actually vote. A friend of mine wrote this on his Facebook status: "The population of NYC was 8.2 million, as of 2011. 257,000 people voted for Bill DeBlasio. Assuming no runoff & a Democratic victory in the general, 3% of NYC decided our next mayor." THREE PERCENT. Now I know that primary election turnouts have historically always been low, but there were five candidates running in the Democratic primary. Does anyone want their voice heard? A total of 599,035 as of this writing, voted in the Democratic primary. A pathetic 56,817 (and counting) voted in the Republican primary , and winner Joe Lhota received 29,909 of those votes. Taking my friend's theory even further, if by some chance Lhota should win the general election (and hey, we haven't had a Democratic Mayor in New York City since NINETEEN-EIGHTY-FUCKING-NINE ) then .3%, that's three-tenths of one percent , of New Yorkers will have decided the next mayor. I'm a...