This triumph is exceptional even for New York. With over 70 percent of the vote to citizens Bill de Blasio have elected Mayor – the first Democrat in the Town Hall since 1993. The former left activist takes a heavy legacy: The city is deeply divided.

“Gawker” calls out the winner long before. “Bill de Blasio elected mayor of New York City” headlines the Gossip site – even though the polls have opened since nine and a half hours. De Blasio, as “Gawker” below a photo of the candidate in the confetti storm, will grab a whopping 64 percent of the vote.

This forecast is even an understatement at the end. The vote count has barely begun , as already de Blasio jumps on the stage of a former armory in Brooklyn to celebrate can be of his beery fans. 73.6 percent – it is a victory , as it has not seen since the times of the upper coupler Grant Ed Koch in New York .

“You have this election made ​​to your vocation ,” he shouts , and then quickly comes to the point: He would New York do it again in a ” united city ” in which ” no one is left behind ” and ” everyone has a chance – black , white , Latino, Asian, gay or straight . ”

There are matching words that night , especially since the Tea Party of America’s rights have almost the same time put away bitter defeats. Thus, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where the moderate Republican governor Chris Christie is re-elected with nearly 60 percent. So also in the southern state of Virginia, where the Democrat Terry McAuliffe feeding hair with a sharp edge in the oldest villa governor of the United States.

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