{"id":33563,"date":"2013-09-11T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33563"},"modified":"2013-09-13T03:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T03:19:51","slug":"de-blasio-first-in-mayoral-primary-unclear-if-he-avoids-a-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33563","title":{"rendered":"De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/11\/nyregion\/results-of-new-york-citys-mayoral-primaries.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-09-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halbfinger\" target=\"_blank\">David M. Halbfinger<\/a><\/strong>, Reporter<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidwchen\" target=\"_blank\">David W. Chen<\/a><\/strong>, City Hall Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Bill de Blasio<\/a>, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city\u2019s deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes than any of his rivals in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But as Mr. de Blasio, an activist-turned-operative and now the city\u2019s public advocate, celebrated a remarkable come-from-behind surge, it was not clear if he had won the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff election on Oct. 1 with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Thompson_(New_York)\" target=\"_blank\">William C. Thompson Jr.<\/a>, who finished second. At night\u2019s end, he had won just over 40 percent of the ballots counted; thousands of paper ballots had yet to be tallied, which could take days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mr. de Blasio, a white <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklynite<\/a> who frequently showcased his biracial family, built a broad coalition of support among nearly every category of Democratic primary voters on Tuesday, according to the exit poll by Edison Research. His critique of a city divided between rich and poor \u2014 tried in the past by other candidates in New York and nationally with little success \u2014 resonated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love his message about the tale of two cities, the big inequality gap,\u201d said Jelani Wheeler, 19, a politics student at St. John\u2019s University in Queens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/11\/nyregion\/results-of-new-york-citys-mayoral-primaries.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff The New York Times 2013-09-10 David M. Halbfinger, Reporter David W. Chen, City Hall Bureau Chief Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city\u2019s deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[15381,15692,15690,15689,15691,2711,596,2640,2327,15693],"class_list":["post-33563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-david-chen","tag-david-halbfinger","tag-david-m-halbfinger","tag-david-w-chen","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-william-c-thompson-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}