In what was a very light primary day turnout, Teachout won 46 percent of Manhattan’s votes. She won all three of Manhattan’s West Side Assembly districts, Tony Hoffmann, president of the Village Independent Democrats, said. Teachout also won liberal voting areas in Brooklyn, including Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill. I think she did great, Hoffmann said on Wednesday. She was in the race for — what? — eight weeks. And eight weeks later, with little name recognition and no money…it’s incredible. V.I.D. endorsed Teachout and Wu, as did several other leading Downtown progressive Democratic clubs, including the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Coalition for a District Alternative and Downtown Independent Democrats [and Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats].... The Jim Owles club was the first to endorse Teachout, and she didn’t forget it. She personally thanked Allen Roskoff, the gay club’s president, during her televised concession speech. Hoffmann said Teachout won in the city’s liberal white districts. She fared less well in working-class districts and among poorer, minority and conservative Jewish voters — the latter likely at least partly swayed by Cuomo’s strong position in support of Israel. But Teachout won among liberal Jewish voters. In addition, she won the entire Hudson Valley, stretching north above Westchester up to Canada. She and Cuomo each won 31 counties, but the ones Teachout took had few votes and the ones Cuomo garnered had many. She sent a message — on the Moreland Commission, fracking, education — that we need public investment in education, Hoffmann said. In addition, Randy Credico, the stand-up comic turned political candidate, all things considered, did very well for himself, too, Hoffmann said. Credico — who was angered when Teachout suddenly became the protest vote candidate instead of him — won 3.6 percent of Democratic votes cast.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:45:06 +0000