Primary Results In: de Blasio and Liu Win

Today's election show that the influence of Hawthorne Street on city politics is decidedly mixed. While we were able to push de Blasio to a dominating 64-36 win in the Public Advocate race, our endorsement of David Yassky was not nearly enough as Liu won with a comfortable 56% of the vote.

Kidding aside, it appears that the Working Families Party endorsement is a quite powerful one, as both WFP candidates won the primary (and will almost certainly win in November). As predicted, it was a low-turnout election - fewer than 10% of eligible Democrats voted - and in that kind fo election, organizations with dedicated get-out-the-vote operations are likely to prevail.