Election Day 2005 - Candidates Vote!

The two mayoral candidates, challenger Fernando Ferrer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, headed to the polls this morning, hoping to encourage people to go out and vote, even though Mayor Bloomberg is leading by, as some polls say, as much as 38 points. The Ferrer campaign is hoping that their supporters will vote so the defeat won't be so crushing and Bloomberg's is hoping that his supporters will actually vote after being told Bloomberg will win in a landslide. The game to play tonight and tomorrow is what the voter turnout (NYC has ~~1.2~~ 3.9 million voters - PDF of enrollment totals) will be. At any rate, Ferrer voted in Riverdale, joined by his wife and adorable grandsons, while Bloomberg voted on the Upper East Side. Bloomberg actually campaigned longer than Ferrer yesterday, making former Mayor Ed Koch scare voters in Riverdale (they knocked on doors! what would you do if it was Bloomberg and Koch at your door?) and ending the evening at the top of the Empire State Building (equal time, we imagine, after his visit to the Top of the Rock last week); Ferrer's special guest stars were Barack Obama and Howard Dean.

We'll update the political goings throughout the day. And we might even comment about the NJ gubernatorial race, but Gothamist has been trying not to because we hate Forrester and Corzine for giving us bad dreams with their negative campaigning. Codey, you smell like a rose!

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By Jen Chung in News on November 8, 2005 11:23 AM

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3rd party

Wow, you guys are great. You could at least do a little casual research on a party before blindly casting a vote for them. To clarify, you voted for the Rent Is Too Damn High BECAUSE OF THE JEWS!!! party. Nice going. You really took a stand, guys. Really, congratulations.

mikey

sp:

http://rentistoodamnhigh.org/page51.html

just look around the site, this crap is all over the place.

sp

wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the pointer... Would you mind linking to an example?

Thanks again.

notfornothing

Not for nothing, sp, but if you're worried about being connected with homophobes and NRA activists by voting Republican, aren't you worried about being connected with the anti-Semitic rantings of the RITDH Party? I don't blame you; you probably just love catchy party names. I fell for the same thing in 1984 with the Where's The Beef? party. God, that old lady was funny. A racist, but very funny.

sp

I voted for the Rent Is Too Damn High candidate as well, for the reasons you stated above. Not happy with either Bloomy or Ferrer. Interestingly though, if you do like Bloom but dont like the republican party, he was also listed on the Independance party ticket.

I will never vote for ANY republican candidate regardless of the "issues" simply because of guilt by association. If you're a republican that means you are connected to the likes of DeLay, Cheney, Bush, a whole host of Bible Thumpers, homophobes, creationists, NRA activists etc.

anonymous

for the above ^^ why does party affiliatino matter so much? it should be about the issues, and the candidate's position on them, rather than which party they're running with.

MT

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! Someone had to say it. :-)

Jen

I have to say that I LOVE this photograph of Bloomberg leaving the voting booth - it's very "I'm the Wizard of Oz" meets "I'm coming out - watch out!"

puglsey

Mike looks like he is coming out of the womb. I imagine he was born with a suit on. Freddy has a good looking family. Oddly, Freddy has really grown on me the past few weeks. He seems to have a hard time going negative, which is promising. Still have a problem with his chicken in every pot strategy though.