7 Reasons New Yorkers Should Care About Election Day

 

By The New York Times

Today is Election Day, which, in large measure in the New York region, is where civic duty runs headlong into predictable outcomes — portending a low-energy, low-turnout sort of event.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, is expected to coast to re-election in New York City over his Republican challenger, Nicole Malliotakis; in the New Jersey governor’s race, Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, holds a double-digit lead over Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, a Republican.

So why should New Yorkers care about Election Day? We’ll give you seven reasons and story lines why.

1. TURNOUT: Mr. de Blasio has spent much of his re-election campaign pushing get-out-the-vote efforts, after only about 14 percent of registered Democratic voters turned out for the New York City primary in September. The mayor would not only like to beat his opponents by an overwhelming margin, he wants to be able to say that his campaign energized New Yorkers to vote in what has been a low-key election.

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