NY Times: What Do New Yorkers Want in a President?

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What Do New Yorkers Want in a President?

It is the town that likes to pride itself on being like no other, where people thrill to possibilities as endless as a Zabar's deli line and revel in problems as ubiquitous as pushcarts.

So you might think New Yorkers would be ready, at the drop of a NoLita-chic hat, to spew their very own special set of concerns, their wish lists, wants, needs, rants and whines.

You would be wrong. When it comes to electing a president, it turns out that in the city of Central Park, Wall Street and Broadway, voters are not so different in what they want from a Democratic candidate than voters in Berlin, N.H., or Edmond, Okla.

Sure, a few of the dozens of New Yorkers interviewed over the past few days mentioned parochial items among their concerns, like increasing the number of B25 buses running along Court Street in Brooklyn, or getting rid of the restrictions on urban living imposed by the Bloomberg administration, or making a passing grade on the bar exam in one state valid in all others. And a few people discussed their worries about big-city problems like mass transit, aging infrastructure and homelessness - not things you hear about much from pig farmers in Iowa.

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What Do New Yorkers Want in a President?

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