Justice
Proof That Lots of New Yorkers Once Actually Liked Anthony Weiner
And other patterns from a new Election Atlas of New York voting results.
The last time Anthony Weiner ran for mayor of New York City, back in the 2005 Democratic primary, he fared relatively well in the parts of Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn that overlay on demographic maps of the city with predominantly white, upper-income census tracts. He did even better in the corners of Brooklyn and Queens that belonged to his former Congressional district. And, curiously, he was popular with Democratic voters in the more heavily Republican southern part of Staten Island.
Here, the results of that election have been plotted by the new NYC Election Atlas project from the CUNY Graduate Center, the university's Graduate School of Journalism and its Center for Community and Ethnic Media: