Jerry Skurnik crunches the numbers and emails some interesting bits of analysis.
Bill de Blasio beat Mark Green pretty much everywhere.
“Two closest were 59 AD (Canarsie), where Thomas Jefferson Club supported Green and he lost 1,465 - 1,224 & 26 AD (Eastern Queens), where he lost 2,189-2,141,” Skurnik writes.
Only a Read More
As Carolyn Maloney prepares to announce that she's running a primary campaign against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Maloney has left no doubt that she regards multi-candidate primary fields as an inherent good, and maybe even a right.
“People around the world watched and were inspired as people in Iran risked their lives to vote,” she Read More
The esteemed numbers expert Jerry Skurnik has responded to a column in which I sought to put David Paterson’s hideous poll numbers in some historical context.
In the column, I wrote:
A quick review of past polling finds that just three sitting governors in the last three decades have faced Read More
After an official canvassing of voting machines in Queens, Republican State Senator Frank Padavan leads his Democratic challenger, City Councilman Jim Gennaro, by 502 votes, according to a spokeswoman at the city’s Board of Elections.Yet to be counted are 8,063 votes cast by paper (absentee ballots, emergency ballots, etc.).Veteran political consultant Jerry Skurnik, for Read More
Michael Bloomberg is already coming under criticism from City Council members over the budget cutbacks he proposed.And according to Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, that criticism will only make Bloomberg…stronger. “If they attack him, they strengthen his hand,” said Sheinkopf. The presumption among Bloomberg’s critics “is that New Yorkers don’t know the world is collapsing. Trust Read More
On the surface, the story is a familiar one.A young insurgent, Dan Squadron, decides to challenge an entrenched incumbent, Marty Connor, in a State Senate race, in a year when public antipathy towards the ossified ways of Albany is greater than it has been in recent memory. The line between underdog liberal reformer and entrenched Read More
Here’s something I didn’t get to squeeze into my story about the potential impact of Barack Obama’s nomination on New York politics: in the February 5 primary, 276,076 of the Democrats who voted in New York City had never voted before. That’s according to Jerry Skurnik, a Democratic consultant and professional number-cruncher. Read More
It should, theoretically, be the least of concerns for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's primary challengers to petition successfully for a place on the ballot. (Only 500 signatures are required in the district.) But they're not taking any chances.
This morning, one of Silver’s opponents, Luke Henry, announced that he’s retained Alan Zimmerman, a petition Read More
Here's how longtime political consultant Jerry Skurnik explained why anyone cares who wins the ongoing race for one of two positions on Manhattan Surrogate's Court: “Because a lot of lawyers make a lot of money at the courts."
In particular, he went on, trust and real estate lawyers, "many of whom are politically connected, get really Read More
Here's the invitation to the holiday party hosted by Jerry Skurnik and Stuart Osnow of Prime New York, the warehouse for lots and lots of voter information in New York.
As always, the invitation was accompanied by some political poetry:
2007 was a very slow year We waited for 2008 to appearSo the Read MoreLast night I emailed a few people to ask who the real winners and losers were from yesterday’s elections. Here’s some of what they said. Joseph Mercurio:"The losers are the people who complicated an election where Democrats would have continued to pick up seats throughout the state by aggressively pushing a new Read More
A downstairs neighbor, Daphne Charles, 28, Read More
"Since candidates have won when polls have shown them down by 20 points a week out, can we just agree right now that no poll a Read More
Here's a list of people who filed petitions with the city's Board of Elections to run for City Council, courtesy of the encyclopedic Jerry Skurnik. For the record, there appear to be 13 names down to run for the Yvette Clarke seat. The filing deadline was yesterday. -- Azi Paybarah
Jerry Skurnik includes some facts about the selection of judges which he said the Times missed in their recent editorial. Liz Benjamin looks at some new rules the state Senate may vote on tomorrow. Spin Cycle has more on these numbers that Maureen O'Connell produced when she ran for a countywide Read More
