Voter Profiles for Bloomberg Went Beyond Ethnic Labels - New York Times

Interesting comments about the politics of the Bloomberg campaign. This pragmatic, non-ideological politics is something the national Democrats better get hip to quick. Maybe they could start by talking to this guy.

Voter Profiles for Bloomberg Went Beyond Ethnic Labels - New York Times: "'After 9/11, New Yorkers unified under a paradigm that was not race-based,' Mr. Sheekey said.

And with that understanding, Mr. Schoen said, the Bloomberg campaign was able to address voters in a way that Mr. Ferrer's campaign could not. Its frequent critiques of Mr. Bloomberg as a Republican, and its descriptions of the city as 'two New Yorks' separated by class, he said, were not addressing the true concerns of New Yorkers.

'If you are a poor person worried about your job, you're not talking in party terms,' Mr. Schoen said. 'We were talking responsively to their needs and people weren't going to respond to the old language of class and race and party.'"