The Awl Voter Guide for November 3, 2009 @11:19 AM
Choire Sicha: The purpose of this morning's editorial meeting is to discuss our endorsements for tomorrow's election.
Alex Balk: Oh, is that tomorrow?
Choire Sicha: Yes, the world's quietest New York City election.
Alex Balk: It's weird, I haven't even been robo-called. What the fuck is Mike Bloomberg spending $35,000 an hour on?
Choire Sicha: I think I saw a TV ad this one time as I was fast-forwarding on my DVR? READ MORE 21
The First Mayoral Debate @10:35 AM
Hands up, how many of you watched the mayoral debate last night? Really? All of you? Wasn't it amazing? I'm not sure what my favorite part was: the heckling of Mike Bloomberg by the Green party candidate (from the audience), the high school auditorium-level production values, the lightning round—good lord, there really was a lightning round (I'm sure any number of enterprising reporters are currently pounding the pavement to discover evidence that Bloomberg's denial of ever having had a manicure was a flat-out lie)—the extensive back-and-forth on water rates… it was indeed a rich tapestry. But oddly engaging! READ MORE 16
Dear Bill Thompson @10:31 AM
Dear Bill Thompson,
I have never met you. As far as I know, no one I know has ever met you. I couldn't pick you out of a lineup—and I can say that because I just now went Googling for a picture of you and I didn't even know you were black, so I didn't even know that saying that would have icky weird racist overtones! Seriously. WTF? And I say this as the kind of primary-voting nerd who briefly got into it with Leslie Crocker Snyder campaigners last night on the street. (So maybe I called her a killer, and maybe a bunch of Aborn campaigners laughed their heads off.) And yet here you are, the Democratic contender for mayor of New York. Right now, you are not going to be the mayor, to put it politely, which is to say, you are barely a blip on the map in a political landscape where the tiny Red Sox-loving mayor is a strangely dominant, compelling and, most importantly, famous entity. So what are you going to do? Who are you going to appeal to? READ MORE 11
