In this week’s City Council races, the people of New York resoundingly spoke — and what they said, largely, was that they don’t care about off-year City Council races.
Maybe they should care.
Turnout was abysmal, at 3% of active voters.
The people don’t seem to know what they want, except for one thing: The most committed voters in districts that voted Adams into office two years ago aren’t thrilled with how things are going.
The most disheartening result was in one of the highest-profile races, Lower Manhattan.
Incumbent lefty Chris Marte coasted to victory, with 64% of the vote; 87% of active Democratic voters stayed home.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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