{"id":34610,"date":"2013-11-06T04:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34610"},"modified":"2015-05-06T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:53:59","slug":"de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor-exit-polls-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34610","title":{"rendered":"De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/06\/nyregion\/de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\">De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-11-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/michael_barbaro\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Barbaro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/david_w_chen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">David W. Chen<\/a><\/strong>, City Hall Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/06\/nyregion\/de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/11\/05\/nyregion\/06nycmayor_deblasio2\/06nycmayor_deblasio2-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBill de Blasio hugged his son, Dante, at an election night party on Tuesday. <small><em>Chang W. Lee\/The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Bill de Blasio<\/a>, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an obscure office into the fiery voice of New York\u2019s disillusionment with a new gilded age, was elected the city\u2019s 109th mayor on Tuesday..<\/p>\n<p>His overwhelming victory, stretching from the working-class precincts of central <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a> to the suburban streets of northwest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queens\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a>, amounted to a forceful rejection of the hard-nosed, business-minded style of governance that reigned at City Hall for the past two decades and a sharp leftward turn for the nation\u2019s largest metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat who is the city\u2019s public advocate, defeated his Republican opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Lhota\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph J. Lhota<\/a>, a former chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority_(New_York)\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Transportation Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was the most sweeping victory in a mayor\u2019s race since 1985, when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Koch\" target=\"_blank\">Edward I. Koch<\/a> won by 68 points, and it gave Mr. de Blasio what he said was an unmistakable mandate to pursue his liberal agenda&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;To an unusual degree, he relied on his own biracial family to connect with an increasingly diverse electorate, electrifying voters with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GgvXniTz7D8\" target=\"_blank\">television commercial featuring his charismatic teenage son, Dante<\/a>, who has a towering Afro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/06\/nyregion\/de-blasio-is-elected-new-york-city-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor The New York Times 2013-11-05 Michael Barbaro David W. Chen, City Hall Bureau Chief Bill de Blasio hugged his son, Dante, at an election night party on Tuesday. Chang W. Lee\/The New York Times Bill de Blasio, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an obscure [&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":[15381,15691,16302,15380,2711,596,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-34610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-david-w-chen","tag-joseph-j-lhota","tag-michael-barbaro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610","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=34610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}