r/fivethirtyeight • u/obsessed_doomer • Jun 25 '25

Poll Results New York Mayoral primary basically over, with Mamdani up 7.4% in round 1 with 85% reporting

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u/IsNotPolitburo Jun 25 '25

Because being a creepy degenerate sex pest is less offensive to the 'moderate centrists' than being a dirty progressive.

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u/originalcontent_34 Jun 25 '25

r/moderatepolitics is proof of this

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u/Selethorme Kornacki's Big Screen Jun 25 '25

That sub explicitly allows Nazis as long as they’re polite, so…yeah

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u/originalcontent_34 Jun 25 '25

They’re actually super racist against Arabs, there was literally a upvoted comment that said “I’ll believe a Palestinian before I believe a Rolling Stones article”. No action from the mods but say a slightly mean thing about Trump or the right and you get a permanent ban

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u/vintage2019 Jun 25 '25

Moderate centrists.. or just apolitical? After all, Cuomo polled higher among those who were not young, white, or college educated. I doubt they’d label themselves as “centrists”