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1969 Wagner Thaler Carey New York City Mayoral race - Fluorescent Orange "When Bismarck pronounced that politics is not an exact science, he presumably had uppermost in his mind politics in 19th-century Europe. But there are New Yorkers who can conjure up more recent events in their own city that are memorable for their political inexactitude or for the politics of miscalculation. There was, for example, the 1969 mayoral campaign in which John V. Lindsay ran for re-election." At the same time, the Democrats were guilty of spectacular mismanagement in their primary. Their winning candidate had been expected to be Robert F. Wagner Jr., who, after three terms as Mayor, declined to run in 1965. In 1969, he was back on the road to City Hall, having decided that being Mayor was not such a bad job after all. But in a five-way primary race, Wagner came in second to Mario A. Procaccino, the City Comptroller, who, like Mr. Marchi, was little known outside his home borough, the Bronx."