Why These Blowout Polls Between Lhota And De Blasio Can Become Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Two polls out this week showing Bill de Blasio beating his GOP opponent Joe Lhota by 41% and 43% respectively.We have almost seven weeks to go before the election and and a lot can happen in that time for Lhota to turn this race around.The problem for him, however, is that if he doesn't turn the race around sooner - like in the next three weeks - and have some polls come in showing him substantial
Quinnipac Poll: De Blasio 66%, Lhota 25%
A second post-primary poll finds GOP mayoral nominee Joe Lhota has an uphill climb in this race:Democrat Bill de Blasio hammers Republican Joe Lhota 66% to 25% in a mayoral matchup with a major racial gap, a new Quinnipiac Poll released Thursday shows.The public advocate leads the ex-MTA chief by 30% or more among every age, income and education democraphic.Lhota's negatives are way higher -- he's
Joe Lhota May Not Even Win Staten Island
Staten Island is considered a GOP stronghold in NYC. The borough voted for Giuliani twice and Bloomberg three times (77% the first two times, 66% the last time.)A Republican who wants to be elected mayor of NYC cannot lose Staten Island and expect to win the election.Joe Lhota lost Staten Island in the GOP primary.According to Capital Tonight, Staten Islanders are pissed at Lhota for the Verrazan
Cranky Bloomberg Doesn't Think City Is "Repudiating" Him
The NY Times has a telling article about a press conference Mayor Bloomberg gave yesterday in which he was, uh, let's just say not in the happiest mood about the direction of the mayoral campaign.Here we present the article, almost all in full, for your enjoyment: At a news conference on Wednesday on the Lower East Side, Mr. Bloomberg snapped at several reporters who wanted to hear his thoughts ab
Why Won't NYSED Commissioner John King Face Parents Over His Education Agenda?
Via NYC Eye, we learn that the first of four hearings on the NYSED/Regents education reform agenda was held on Long Island, and it did not go well for the deformers from the state:The growing focus on testing in New York’s schools is sickening students, bewildering parents and threatening to undermine public confidence in the state’s education system, speaker after speaker said Tuesday at a public
Performance Assessment Thursday
We are giving the ELA Measures of Student Learning Performance Assessments to students today and tomorrow so that every teacher in the school can be evaluated to see how much growth students make from September to June.Because it makes total sense that social studies, science, art, physical education and other teachers outside of English Language Arts be evaluated using the ELA Measures of Student
UFT Plants "Kiss Of Death" On Bill De Blasio's Head
The UFT officially endorsed Bill de Blasio for mayor today after backing Bill Thompson in the primary. Thompson had refused to concede the race for mayor until all the votes were counted, but finally called it quits on Monday after many of his supporters reportedly told him he had to go. Jill Colvin at Politicker reports that Mulgrew took personal credit for telling Thompson the game was over:Whil
9-18-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: New York Daily News Gets Nearly EVERYTHING Wrong On Navy Yard Shooter StoryMore classic DN journalism - just about everything wrong:The cover of Tuesday's New York Daily News about Monday's Navy Yard shooting is now almost entirely wrong.The cover features a large AR-15 gun with the headline "Same Gun, Different Slay," and a photo widely circulated on Monday of peo