New York City Mayor Candidate Bill DeBlasio turned his campaign around in a matter of weeks to become the likely democratic mayor candidate. Will Bill de Blasio become New York City's next mayor?
New York City Mayor Candidate Bill DeBlasio has gotten just over 40 percent of the vote in the New York City Mayor Democratic Primary with 98 percent of precincts reporting. 40 percent is the total amount needed in the polls to avoid a runoff election with the next closest opponent. Bill Thompson, who is in second place with 26 percent of the vote, has not yet conceded the race and it could take some time before all votes are counted and the decision about a run off election is made.
New York City Mayor Candidate Bill DeBlasio centered his campaign around "a tale of two cities", advocating attention to issues such as poverty and education.

Referring to the day that he launched his campaign, New York City Mayor Candidate Bill de Blasio said in his victory speech: "That day we said that New York had become the tale of two cities, one where the very wealthy had not only rebounded from the great recession, but where life couldn't get much better for them."
"And we acknowledged that day that there was another New York, a New York where nearly half our citizens live at or near the poverty line, where luxury condos had replaced community hospitals, where proactive policing had somehow slipped into racial profiling, where too many mothers and fathers feared that their daughters and sons would never achieve the very thing we want most for our kids - that they get the education they need to pave the way to a better life."

Bill de Blasio's New York City mayor campaign came a very long way from that day, and came back even though he had been running at 10 percent in the polls for the New York City Mayoral Democratic Primary.
Some criticized New York City Mayor Candidate Bill de Blasio's rhetoric as "class warfare". He also received criticism for ads in which his family spoke. However, his message appeared to resonate across a broad swath of New York voters, winning a plurality in almost every demographic group.

Kenneth Sherrill, professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College in New York, told the Christian Science Monitor: "It's extraordinarily impressive - it's a very powerful win. He won across the board, and that's quite a feat."

"It's very interesting to me, and I think it's unexpected that identity politics appears to have disappeared from this election," Mr. Sherrill adds. "The traditional explanations ... just aren't holding. This is a broad victory that seems to me to be not only about issues, but also to be about the style of his leadership."

If Bill De Blasio is the New York Democratic Mayoral Candidate, he will run against Republican candidate Joe Lhota.

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