Thompson was more than 14 percentage pints down to Bill de Blasio in last Tuesday's primary vote and de Blasio has continued to rack up votes as the last of the machine ballots have been tallied.
De Blasio currently has 40.3% of the votes in the primary.
According to various reports, de Blasio has to get somewhere between 31% and 37% of the paper ballots and absentee ballots to hold on to his 40% total.
The chances of de Blasio falling below 40% at this stage of the count, while not impossible, are improbable.
Many of the outstanding ballots are coming from areas where de Blasio won lots of votes.
So Thompson's chances of getting to a runoff against de Blasio are not that great.
Mark Green has an idea why Thompson is still hanging on:
@azi Let's understand Thomp's wait for final count after 6 years running for mayor: "To leave public life is to die a little."- Dean Acheson
— Mark Green (@markjgreen) September 15, 2013
Well, if anybody should know about this, it's Mark Green.
You might say Anthony Weiner as well.
I always wonder why it's so difficult for some of these politicians to envision a life outside of politics or public life.
Perhaps it's as Acheson said - it's means having to come to grips with a time in their lives that will be no more.
That's a pretty self-centered, self-serving, self-important approach, suggesting the candidate is utterly indifferent to those he supposedly would serve.
ReplyDeleteYup. And when I think about politicians like Weiner, Quinn, Green, Bloomberg, et al., the characterization seems quite apt.
DeleteScary, isn't it?
Weiner was told more than once on the trail that he should go out and get a real job.
He didn't seem to understand what people meant by that.
Thompson spent his six years out of office running for mayor - badly, to be sure, but nonetheless, that's what his goal was.
It's crazy to me - I'd walk away and say, "Okay, time to move on."
But then again, I've been to therapy. I've done work around my ego. I've got a spiritual practice. I don't need the kind of attention or aggrandizement these guys need.
In so many ways, they are children who have never grown up.