Jeffrey Blehar: “A confession: I love every single thing about this year’s New York City mayoral race. I read every story about it, hang on every update or embarrassing photograph that crosses my transom online, and check the polling and political markets daily.”“Why would I, a person who lives nowhere near the Empire State, be so riveted by a local election? Because it is a saga of urban political despair that sings to my own corroded soul like few others this year. I love the chaos, the insanity, the sheer hopelessness of the choices on offer for New Yorkers, as only a longtime Chicago resident truly can.”