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Christine Quinn likes to point out that she is the only woman running for mayor.
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This ad depicts Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes as a sacrificial chicken. It is an appeal for the Orthodox Jewish vote.
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“I remember getting mugged when I was a kid on my way to Yeshiva.”
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Eliot Spitzer also rather direct in his appeal to Orthodox Jews.
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John Catsimatidis is a friend to all Greeks.
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Bill Thompson, the only black candidate in the mayoral race, has sought to make sure voters know he is, in fact, black.
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But the most effective invocation of identity, by far, has been Bill de Blasio’s centering his campaign on his interracial family.
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As his daughter Chiara puts it: De Blasio is “not some boring white guy.