Dan, I almost completely disagree with your analysis.

The 52nd Assembly District part of this district is more important in this race than the 50th Assembly District race, just look at the last time this was an open race in 2001. At that time, there were several candidates from the running for City Council from the 52nd AD. The frontrunner was from the 50th AD, but lost to Yassky who lived in the 52nd.

Aside from that, I really feel that the above posts put too little value in the fact that Diamondstone is the only candidate in this race that has run a contested primary and has voters who have twice voted for him against a fellow Democrat. No other candidate in this race can say that. What his past experience also means is that he has a very valuable form of name recognition, as a result of the fact that he has previously sent out targeted mailings, campaign literature, and has probably phone banked and received results about who would support him. In terms of winning an election, this is much more important than how many times a candidate might have been mentioned on a political blog, or even a local newspaper.

Also, many of his supporters were probably upset that he was asked to step aside in the State Senate race in favor of Dan Squadron, since Squadron is beginning to look like a paper tiger. Look for Diamondstone’s supporters to be very upset if this happens again.