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NYC Mayoral Election Discussion

TheDoctorWasIn said:
Sure. But that's the thing about ranked choice voting - you don't need to get the most votes in the first round to win in the end.
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That Mamdani dude will go far in politics. All terrible ideas but likeable, smart, and he answers any question with ease.
 
aociswundumho said:
That Mamdani dude will go far in politics. All terrible ideas but likeable, smart, and he answers any question with ease.
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I agree. He's very good.

I didn't know about him until this year - I used be pretty tied into New York politics until I moved, and now that I've been back I haven't had the time.

I've known Lander for 15 or so years - I worked for him on his first City Council campaign. He's good too, but Mamdani's better.
 
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TheDoctorWasIn said:
I agree. He's very good.

I didn't know about him until this year - I used be pretty tied into New York politics until I moved, and now that I've been back I haven't had the time.

I've known Lander for 15 or so years - I worked for him on his first City Council campaign. He's good too, but Mamdani's better.
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Mira Nair's kid was probably always going to have a headstart on the camera work.
 
This cross-endorsing thing is an interesting play - I only worked on one ranked-choice campaign, when I was in San Francisco - and it was the first year they were doing it, so no one had quite figured it out.

It was an 11 person race for the Board of Supervisors for the District that covered the Haight. Everyone trying their best to out-liberal each other.

The woman who won that election - the Willy Brown machine moderate and business-friendly candidate - is now the Mayor of San Francisco.

I do remember in the last week, there were a lot of frantic meetings between 5 or 6 of the more left candidates in the race, trying to figure out how to beat her. I wonder if a public "cross endorsing" would have helped.
 
Don’t forget to vote today. It’s looking close, and I’m beginning to think Mamdani may pull it out.
 
Cameron said:
Don’t forget to vote today. It’s looking close, and I’m beginning to think Mamdani may pull it out.
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I know you dislike him, but I hope Mamdani wins over a man who can only be described most generously as a rapacious, corrupt granny-killer.
 
Felis Leo said:
I know you dislike him, but I hope Mamdani wins over a man who can only be described most generously as a rapacious, corrupt granny-killer.
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LOL, I just hope that whoever wins they don’t **** up the city too bad, whether it’s through inexperience or corruption/megalomania.
 
I read an article in the NYT I believe which quoted an op-ed from the Chicago Tribune urging New Yorkers to not vote for Mamdani saying he’s worse than Chicagos current mayor. Apparently Chicago’s mayor has wrecked the city’s finances and quality of living with his uber liberal agenda. I haven’t followed it so I don’t know much about Chicago’s woes except crime is off the charts.
 
The Democratic establishment was in a dire need of a humbling.

I just hope Mamdani won't make the same mistake west coast progressives made on the issues of crime and preposterous "anti-racist" policies (like saying it's racist to teach Algebra I to 8th graders).
 
gman said:
I read an article in the NYT I believe which quoted an op-ed from the Chicago Tribune urging New Yorkers to not vote for Mamdani saying he’s worse than Chicagos current mayor. Apparently Chicago’s mayor has wrecked the city’s finances and quality of living with his uber liberal agenda. I haven’t followed it so I don’t know much about Chicago’s woes except crime is off the charts.
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The New York Times is owned (or at least controlled) by a family of former billionaires trying to claw their way back to prominence. And thankfully they failed.
 
It's quite something that Mamdani is winning by such a margin in the first round. Everyone thought Cuomo would dominate the first rounds, and then Mamdani would come from behind.

At this point, his margin is just going to get bigger. Cuomo has already conceded.
 
aociswundumho said:
I'm rooting for the socialist Mamdani. His failures will be the most entertaining. His platform includes huge tax hikes, government-grocery stores(!), stricter rent control, and making it even harder for landlords to get rid of bad tenants.
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Socialized grocery store? So he wants grocery stores like DMVs?

Are you joking????
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
It's quite something that Mamdani is winning by such a margin in the first round. Everyone thought Cuomo would dominate the first rounds, and then Mamdani would come from behind.

At this point, his margin is just going to get bigger. Cuomo has already conceded.
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I guess enough New York Democratic voters were tired of being served heaping piles of gruel that their Party Machine had been feeding them for the last three decades.
 
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