Unsafe Cities and Politics
After I posted the original post about the Unsafe Cities Report, I began to wonder about the decades that the Democrats had controlled the mayor’s office in so many of the cities.
Why? Why would the voters of Newark vote for a Democratic mayor for 53 years? Clearly Newark has struggled during that period, had riots and crime, had an economy slump nearly out of sight. What did the Democrats bring to the voters of Newark that kept them in power?
Or, could it be the poor presentations by Republicans? Is the Republican Party in general that bad at running good candidates for the office of mayor?
Detroit has had a Democratic mayor for 44 years. In the beginning of the 1960’s they elected a Democrat. They kept electing Democrats through the riots of the late sixties, through the first and second crashes of the American auto industry. They just keep voting for a Democrat.
The mayor of Baltimore is running for Governor of Maryland. Baltimore is number 12 on the list of unsafe cities. They have had a Democratic mayor for 19 years. The mayor of Baltimore stands a good chance of being elected despite the dismal record he has in his city. Why?
There was a full page ad in yesterday’s Democrat & Chronicle suggesting that voters purposely vote agains every incumbant without regard to their party. It was presented that this would break the stranglehold that the Republicans have on the State Senate in New York and the same hold the Democrats have on the State Assembly. The “business as usual and damn the voters” attitude in Albany would be rebuked in the very best way, by sending all the political hacks home.
That won’t happen. A Republican won’t win the next mayor’s election in Detroit.
Why not?
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