{"id":44030,"date":"2015-11-18T21:36:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44030"},"modified":"2015-11-18T21:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:36:36","slug":"mayor-de-blasio-has-lost-support-of-white-new-yorkers-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44030","title":{"rendered":"Mayor de Blasio Has Lost Support of White New Yorkers, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor de Blasio Has Lost Support of White New Yorkers, Poll Finds<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-11-18<\/p>\n

Michael M. Grynbaum<\/strong><\/a>, City Hall Bureau Chief<\/p>\n

Alexander Burns<\/a><\/strong>, Political Correspondent<\/p>\n

Dalia Sussman<\/strong><\/a>, Polling Editor<\/p>\n

Nearing the midpoint of his term, Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/a> is confronting a city that is deeply divided about his ability to lead, with his efforts to create a more liberal New York<\/a> overshadowed by growing worries about homelessness and crime, a new poll finds.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is that concern more visible than among a group, long cool to Mr. de Blasio, that he has now decisively lost: whites.<\/p>\n

Just 28 percent of white New Yorkers approve of the Democratic mayor\u2019s performance, and 59 percent now disapprove, up sharply from the start of his term, according to a citywide poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. Nearly half say that the city is a worse place to live under his watch \u2014 only 9 percent say it is better \u2014 and 51 percent say New York is now less safe, even as crime statistics reach historic lows.<\/p>\n

Over all, 52 percent of New Yorkers say the city is on the wrong track, including 62 percent of whites and 51 percent of Hispanics. Black residents are evenly split…<\/p>\n

…Mr. de Blasio, whose black wife<\/a> and biracial children are central to his image as a champion of multiethnic New York, secured his mayoralty with substantial black support. But he also won in white liberal enclaves like brownstone Brooklyn<\/a> and the Upper West Side<\/a> of Manhattan<\/a>, places where his stock has since fallen…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayor de Blasio Has Lost Support of White New Yorkers, Poll Finds The New York Times 2015-11-18 Michael M. Grynbaum, City Hall Bureau Chief Alexander Burns, Political Correspondent Dalia Sussman, Polling Editor Nearing the midpoint of his term, Mayor Bill de Blasio is confronting a city that is deeply divided about his ability to lead, […]<\/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":[21913,21911,15381,16533,16327,16326,21912,2711,596,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-44030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-alex-burns","tag-alexander-burns","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-dalia-sussman","tag-michael-grynbaum","tag-michael-m-grynbaum","tag-mike-grynbaum","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\/44030","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=44030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44031,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44030\/revisions\/44031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}