Fuck yeah! Checking in from Portland where 3 of our 12 city councillors are democratic socialist. Love this shit, go Zohran
Anecdotal but I’m not seeing his stuff as much on Instagram as I was before the primary election. Almost feels like IG tuned him down in the algorithm.
It’s as if IG is controlled by a billionaire so cowardly and manipulative the far left and right hate his guts.
yeah, I’ve read these stories countless times and the outcome has always been the same. In all honesty I think they do more harm than good. It gets it into the morons heads “oh, he’s going to win, I can stay home”.
In all honesty I think they do more harm than good. It gets it into the morons heads “oh, he’s going to win, I can stay home”.
I keep seeing this line printed over and over again, in every election cycle, by people who seem to think there really is this enormous body of people who are enthusiastic about a candidate but unenthusiastic about voting.
Hell, Cuomo complained about it shortly after the election. He lost because too many people liked him too much and thought his win was assured. I heard this after Brexit. I heard it after Hillary lost in 2016 and after Trump lost in 2020 and after Harris lost in 2024. We can have historic high turnouts and historic low turnouts. We can have sea changes in the composition and ideology of the voters. We can have scandals flood the papers a day before the election that throw polls into chaos and candidates who coast to victory on double-digit margins. (Incidentally, Mamdani won by 12% in an election he was projected to lose by more than that a month earlier). The “I was secretly so popular that people forgot to vote for me” myth endures.
I’ve got an alternative hypothesis. Maybe people turned out for Mamdani because they liked him a lot and people stayed home for Cuomo because he was a creepy sex-pest POS. It had nothing to do with their projected odds of winning and everything to do with their appeal as political leaders.
Fucking love this polling. The only shot the establishment has is either Adams or Cuomo dropping out and endorsing the other. Cuomo won’t quit because he’s a sociopathic narcissist. Adams can’t quit because if he can’t do Trump’s bidding in NYC, Trump will probably prosecute him for corruption (and he is very guilty of corruption). Throw Silwa into the mix and the moderates will have to choose between two corrupt megalomaniacs and a weirdo in a beret, while anyone remotely progressive will gravitate towards Mamdani.
Aw… they did poor Curtis Silwa dirty.
Like, Mamdani all the way. But if I’ve got to pick between those last three, Silwa’s clearly the least awful choice.
I honestly don’t know too much about him except that he was a Gaurdian Angel founder and he took over the Reform Party.
Also to note for others: NYC only has ranked choice for mayor in primaries (or special elections), so there is no ranked choice in this general election
Yeah, because the Dems have been keeping him in news cycle after news cycle by attacking him so he can spread his policy ideas.
Maybe the real progressives were the Democrats we made along the way.
Mr. Mamdani, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Doktor Cardamom is a dream boat.
That’s why they got that cunt cuomo to run independent.
Honestly at this point, because of first past the post, this probably splits the establishment vote. Which I personally think is hilarious (ranked choice being implemented would be better, of course).
fuck off newsweek with your clickbait bullshit, such a garbage outlet…
