bill gates 2. go down the list a tie for seventh place between dalai lama and george w. bush. on the woman s side, malala yousafzai and oprah winfrey. none came close to president obama. and we re giving the award to pontiff and me and the pope. new ad buy. that s after he criticizes them giving the most to the president. all right. coming up a quarter million dollar salary doesn t sound like middle class to a lot of working voters but hillary clinton making that number a financial benchmark for a lot of her economic policy. we ll dig into why ahead. plus three very big cover stories on new stands they cover everything from blair de blasio to isis recruitment to some of the lives we lost in 2015. we ll bring in the writers of
he thinks is decisively against him which is not entirely correct and trying to speak to voters in a more direct way. but i think he really thinks that there s like this elite level discourse that doesn t that isn t reflective of what new yorkers think. now maybe he s dealluded and maybe he s right. he was right when he was at, you know, 5% or whatever in the polls in 2013. he stuck to his message and was proven right. gene robinson has a question for you. a lot of mayors who make their mark on a city do it physically do, it with big projects and big ideas, and big stuff. does de blasio have big plans for the city, big new development or a new bridge or something that would leave a mark on new york city? well, i think if there s one thing that bill de blasio is not
city is doing pretty well economy is doing well. crime down. crime is down. the new york times had a pretty exhaustive story over the weekend detailing exactly how low it is. if you sthet if you gave a set of circumstances to mayor dinkens in iand 91, 92 he would say that s pretty good. dinkens was the last mayor to be defeated for re-election. so really de blasio s problems don t have so much to do with actual real measurable problems with the city. they are more about a generalized kind of sense that he s not really managing the city correctly. you write specifically new yorkers in polls don t think the city is functioning well. the delivery truck blocking the box. the delayed subway.
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general election, won the democratic primary in a romp and now here he is with these pretty low poll numbers. next year, 2017, you mentioned david dinkens the last mayor that made it only one term. what s next? if you talk to de blasio s advisers they are rather no pun intended blase about being defeated in a democratic primary. they think they still have a pretty reliable base of support. and they really have no challenger who has yet emerged in any kind of convincing way to take them on. that said 55% number saying that city is moving in the wrong zraeks pretty troublesome for any politician. this is an exhaustive and frankly if you care about politics at all, you don t have to live in new york, it s fascinating to look at as you call at any time disconnect