If Villaraigosa succeeds at stitching together the support of Hispanics, blacks, Jews and moderate whites, as pre-election polls suggested he might, that "could be the harbinger of the new face of urban politics,"
Ouch
I wouldn't read anything in these results beyond the fact that Hahn has been a miserable failure both as a politician and as a mayor who killed two key components to his 2001 winning coalition... blacks and valley "conservatives" (they're only conservative in comparison to the rest of the city).