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This is great news. However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?
Mamdani could not have had a better campaign, yet, he had just ~8% more votes. If the other guy ran a just tiny bit better campain, things could have been very different.
I am trully happy that Mamdani won, but yet, I am left scared at the state of things. He should have had 70/80% of votes. After all that has been happening in the US for the last 9 months or so, there is only a 8% number of votes separating the two sides? Holly molly, that is scary.
I'm 100% for Mamdani, but wasn't the sexual assault case dismissed against Cuomo? Some people really do get falsely accused of sexual assault and it ruins their life. We should not try to normalize calling him an assaulter if it's not true.
It wasn’t 1 person that accused him. Are you saying 13 women got together and decided to lie? Also it was dismissed because the DA refused to prosecute. It didn’t even go to trial so these women didn’t even have an opportunity to tell their side in court.
I read that Mamdani polled at 1% back in February, about 9 months ago. Cuomo was a former governor of the state, so was his father, and his brother had a show on CNN so they had stacked named recognition. Thankfully negative recognition as well, given Andrew's behavior. Still, to go from 1% to over 50% in 9 months is an incredible result for Mamdani.
First of all, it was a 3 way race, against far better known candidates. He was running an untested Socialist campaign, against ferocious propaganda from BOTH sides. The voters had to remain courageous, ignore ALL that, and tell the "experts" that they didn't care, something that they historically don't tend to do. By all standard political theory, he should have been crushed by 50 points.
In America, many races are within a few points. It's not at all unusual to have a race decided by only a point, or even less. In any race, an 8 point lead is significant. For an unknown Socialist, coming out of nowhere, against the most incredible bi-partisan smear campaign I've ever seen, to win by 8 points, is an enormous victory.
Both MAGA and established Democrats are terrified today. The Progressive Left just fired the first shots of the New Civil War, and hit every target.
Great context, thanks.
I don't think many established Democrats are terrified. If anything, they're hopefully learning lessons. Get your damn fingers out of the wind trying to test which narrative will appeal to the most people, and instead do what makes sense and show an actual vision for what your district/city/state/country can look like.
Oh, they most definitely are terrified. They were endorsing Cuomo over Mamdani, despite Cuomo being poison, AND the fact that the voters were always extremely clear in their preference for Mamdani. They don't fucking care what we want, they want us to do as we're told.
These weakling motherfuckers better get on board, or they're going to get run over. America is about to get a massive overhaul, and if the Establishment Dems don't get their shit together, they will be considered as destructive as MAGAs, and will get kicked the political balls right along with them.
People who vote for law and order or over things like "crime" that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.
As much of a POS as Cuomo is, he's been elected before and a lot of older people trust him because of that, for reasons I can't fathom. He was simultaneously a terrible candidate who also had a high floor.
Though I 100% agree that it's disgusting how many Americans don't seem to care about the character of their leadership, because it absolutely matters. You don't get to whine about corrupt, uncaring politicians when you consistently reward them with your vote.
The enemies of progress own most of the major US news outlets. I think that is the biggest reason why so many people voted for a dipshit like Cuomo.
A second possibility is name recognition. Now that Zohran gets to run New York for awhile, his name and ideas will spread. That means during the next round of elections, he becomes the defending champ with all the advantages that brings to the table. If he is a good leader, he probably will have a much greater margin of votes than Cuomo ever did.
because too many Americans still think "wE aRE NoT thEre YEt!"
It's all about money, and money brings out the worst in people.
There is a lot of much racists, xenophobic, socialistophobe and communistophobe in the new york and the usa