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Progressive Christians and San Francisco and Wyoming’s voters, in readers’ eyes.
In her Aug. 30 column, “Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s quiet radical,” Kate Andrews was right that San Francisco’s mayor represents a quiet revolution within the Democratic Party. Recent Manhattan Institute focus groups that I’ve run in California suggest that San Franciscans have noticed — and they help explain why his approach is working.
Compared with voters we interviewed in Los Angeles, the San Francisco participants were markedly more optimistic about their city’s direction. They still described robberies, car break-ins, public drug use, severe mental illness and an unaffordable housing market. Several had been victims of crime. Yet they also sensed that conditions were improving and repeatedly pointed to Lurie as a reason for hope.
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Jesse Arm is the vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute, where he oversees communications, government relations, and public opinion research.