Not surprising, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg won big last night in our district. Check out this great interactive map from NYTimes: http://elections.nytimes.com/2009/results/index.html
Is the campaign closing up shop on Riverdale Ave. already? Haven’t been over that way today. Or maybe they paid for the whole month of November! Back to a sad, empty storefront on the Riverdale Ave. landscape soon.
Less than 17,000 votes were cast in our district … so low! That is beyond sad.
If my experience on Tuesday is any indication, the low number of votes has to do with elderly people having no clue what they are doing, and the polling staff being equally clueless as well as completely useless!
I think voter apathy was the reason. I had lunch yesterday with three civic-minded people and none of them had voted. They each said they “couldn’t” vote for Bloomberg and did not feel confident in Tompson.
This is an even better interactive map!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/04/nyregion/mayor-vote.html?em
Punch in 10463, then check out the #s for that one little dark red semi-triangular district right underneath the words “Spuyten Duyvil”. Where/what is that? It went for Bloomberg 130 votes to 1, which doesn’t seem possible.
I wish a better Dem had run. Bloomberg ended up spending about $2000 for each vote comprising his victory margin, or $160 for each vote cast for him. That’s just disturbing.