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Freddy's Not Rockin' So Steady Among Latinos

19:02 H | Topics: New York City - Politics

It seems I'm not the only Latina in NYC not jumping on NYC mayoral hopeful Freddy Ferrer's bandwagon. The latest Quinnipiac University poll has Ferrer leading current NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg among Latinos polled by a measly five points, 48 percent to 43 percent. 61 percent of likely voters overall support Bloomberg, while Ferrer hangs on to 30 percent.

I haven't seen that much outreach to the Latino community specifically by Ferrer. Whereas Bloomberg has been filling my mailbox with bilingual flyers and speaking to me in choppy Spanish between novelas. No doubt some of this is because the incumbent mayor is a billionaire who could air ads in pig Latin if he wanted to because money is no object. Pero what about old fashioned pressing of the flesh? Yeah we've seen Ferrer waving at parades but when was the last time he was in your hood? Sources have placed Ferrer at an event last week in the highly Latino concentrated Jackson Heights, Queens but it wasn't publicized. I'm sure many members of the immigrant would have had plenty of questions and concerns that Freddy could have played up.

Of course Freddy's camp says that polls don't mean anything and that
Quinnipiac pollsters have always underestimated the NY Rican.

We will certainly be able to decide for ourselves in just two more weeks when election day comes.

Via / New York Post

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