Come November 5, one Council candidate will have no opponent at all. Several Democrats will face no Republican opposition. And a few races will offer crowded fields.
A newly released final list of candidates for the general election shows that several Council members face no competition at all, while many more are against only third-party rivals.
Will Bill de Blasio’s huge, crazy, enormous, commanding lead over Joe Lhota hold up on Election Day? Will the polls themselves shape the outcome they’re trying to predict?
Beyond the shutdown, and besides the debt-ceiling deadline, another date approaches for cuts to the Food Stamp program on which some 1.9 million New Yorkers depend.
In the Democrat’s “two cities” narrative, the South Bronx neighborhood ranks among the have-nots. But many voters say they’re still deciding whom to support in November.
A tabloid is taking the Democratic nominee to task for failing to offer a solution to an increase in shootings. But a stroll through the archives suggests recent crime spikes…
Around Camaguey restaurant on Primary Day, even people who went to the polls had little faith that the officials they voted for would make good on their campaign promises.
