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Here are the odious factions that will likely choose NYC’s next mayor

By Thomas A. Smith

There are, of course, more Red Sox fans than Republicans in New York, the GOP lately being the kitchen fire extinguisher people keep for emergencies. Yet even given Gotham s one-party playing field, there is some surprising diversity in its politics: multiple shades of left, to be sure, but diversity nonetheless.

There are at least five wings of the Democratic Party in the city six, if you count the United Federation of Teachers which makes for a very strange-looking bird, indeed. The factions are well-illustrated by, but not limited to, the current mayoral field and include:

via nypost.com