“Racial Politics of 2001; Unhealed Wounds in 2005 ”

“NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Green defeated Fernando Ferrer in the Democratic runoff for mayor Thursday, held exactly one month after the World Trade Center tragedy that transformed both the city and the campaign.”

In previous elections, 60 to 85 percent of the Latino population could be counted on to vote Democratic. Last year, for example, 85 percent of Latino voters gave their support to Hillary Clinton. But this year’s delayed primary and the fractious run-off between Fernando Ferrer and Mark Green caused many in the Latino community to turn against the man they viewed as spoiling the chances for the first Latino mayor of New York City. “The 48 percent of Latinos who voted for Bloomberg were ticked off at Green,” Gonzalez speculated. “If Green gets elected, they figure, we have to wait eight years to elect a Latino mayor. But if we elect Bloomberg we only have to wait four years.”
African Americans gave Green 74 percent of their votes in the general election, but in the 1997 mayoral election they gave more than 90 percent of their votes to Giuliani’s opponent, Ruth Messinger. According to Gonzales, Giuliani’s poor relations with the African American community probably wound up costing Bloomberg votes when the mayor endorsed his fellow Republican. Gonzalez dismissed the idea that Al Sharpton could have rallied the African American vote around Green, and is therefore responsible for Green’s loss. “Al Sharpton has become the chief bogeyman of New York politics,” Gonzalez said. “Not only is he blamed for making demands of Ferrer and losing the race for Ferrer because he made white voters vote for Green, but he is also blamed for losing the general election because nobody came out to vote for Green. People who blame Sharpton for this,” Gonzalez warned, “are doing a disservice to our democracy.”
Hillary is doing the same thing to Obama that was done t Ferrer. Hey who cares who get’s into ffice as lng as it’s nt a latino or black person. Latinos have such a problem with blacks that they would do exactly what whites do to them.