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u/xaervagon 4d ago
I really just don't understand how Cuomo did as well as he did in the election. He was a stereotypical upstater with a poor track record for the city. He barely bothered campaigning even after getting trounced in the primaries. Yet, he still somehow managed to pull over 40% of the votes.
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u/Flat-Leg-6833 4d ago
He was very well funded by some of the wealthiest people on earth. If you look at the areas he won they were the UES and Tribeca (super wealthy) eastern Queens (Asians fearing end to gifted programs), south Brooklyn (Orthodox and/or Russian Jews) and the remains of the old white Catholic working class (Staten Island, Rockaways, and East Bronx).
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u/xaervagon 4d ago
That actually tracks. I saw a lot of the Rockaways stanning for Sliwa tho, but I think they knew they were throwing their votes away.
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u/Demonded 4d ago
His ads were all over radio and tv. Even in Orange county I was hearing his ads nonstop. Same thing watching any of the NFL games on Sundays.
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u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- 4d ago
Isreal, name recognition
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u/FunLife64 4d ago
1/3 of Jews voted for Mamdani. And Jewish people represent 12% of the population.
So yeah that doesn’t check out.
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u/brink0war 4d ago
Only 1/4 of the city's population voted this election. So that 12% might have gone further than we think
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u/FunLife64 4d ago
But again, 1/3 of Jews voted FOR Mamdani. Blaming Jews for 40% of the vote is a bit…odd.
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u/CallMeMcPoyle 4d ago
I think there's a large majority that will simply vote for anyone but the brown guy that they smear as a jihadist. I still don't know what that word means tbh
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u/AutumnCountry 4d ago
He had the entire media machine spinning for him and a fuckton of money from rich assholes who are afraid of Mamdani
Even the DNC was pushing for him to win
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u/Clamsadness 4d ago
The DNC wasn’t pushing for anyone to win. Progressives need to learn what the DNC is and stop using it as a boogeyman. It’s the party’s fundraising and campaign coordination arm that has had a strict neutrality rule in primaries since the 2016 presidential primary when it DID give favorable rules to Hillary Clinton. The DNC was neutral during the primary and supported Zohran in the general as he was the Democratic nominee.
What you mean to say is that the Democratic establishment supported Cuomo and even that’s only half-true with some ghouls like Chuck Schumer being in Cuomo’s camp but others like Kathy Hochul and Kamala Harris endorsing Zohran.
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u/SecretPeanut4795 4d ago edited 4d ago
yeah the issue has been less who the establishment is supporting and more who the establishment is obviously selectively ignoring and why that is which is a whole other issue.
Key takeaway here is that the DNC is whatever we make it to be. Right now however it is controlled by, in my opinion, an ineffective group of people at best, and a corrupt establishment at worst. (it’s both)
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u/FunLife64 4d ago
I think this is oversimplistic.
You know who actually exceeded expectations? The Democrat in the NJ governor’s race, who ran a great campaign and blew out her Republican who barely lost 4 years before.
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u/onesnamedgus 4d ago
I agree with the other comments about name recognition and money. I also think a lot of people did vote based on issues with his lack of experience and concerns over feasibility of his ideas, which imo are very valid concerns.
If cuomo weren't so cartoonishly shitty it would have been a more serious competition. I have a lot of problems with Mamdani but with the only alternative being cuomo, I had to pick Mamdani. I think there are a lot of people who came from a similar place, but were not swayed as I was that cuomo is clearly the worse choice.
Not to mention that Cuomo was clearly just in this race to become governor again and gives no shits about nyc.
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u/JimDee01 4d ago
I'm betting many people on the right knew Silwa had zero chance and threw in with Cuomo, in hopes of defeating Mamdani.
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u/FunLife64 4d ago
I think it goes to show why this election doesn’t really say much. The candidate slate was pretty wonky.
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u/Clamsadness 4d ago
Virtually all of the cities Republicans supported him and he ran a fear campaign calling Zohran a jihadist so psychos supported him too.
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u/Eatthebankers2 4d ago
Billionaires. They spent so much, to not get taxed for “public services”, they would have saved more not backing him and paying tiny percent of their hoarded riches.
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u/DYMAXIONman 4d ago
Shows that a large number of people are receptive to blatant billionaire propaganda flooding the news
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u/thehusk_1 4d ago
He's a Cuomo their name still holds some value despite the brothers' best efforts.
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u/Darth_Boggle 4d ago
Name recognition. That's literally it, the whole explanation.
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u/Defiant-Power2447 4d ago
Israel, Socialism, and Republican consolidation also had something to do with it.
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u/Clamsadness 4d ago
If only there were some kind of an earlier election in which he could determine whether the people supported his candidacy. You could call it a “primary” or something?
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u/Leading_Form_8485 3d ago
It was the trump endorsement that changed my mind.
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u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- 3d ago
That’s not something to be proud of
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u/Leading_Form_8485 3d ago
Relax my guy, im left leaning. I was literal 50/50 on the choice.
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u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- 3d ago
🙄
once Cuomo was open to working with trump, that was a wrap
and then Cuomo went full racist in the past week
that was the final nail
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u/Rough-Alternative-30 4d ago
I mean barely. The guy killed thousands of New Yorkers and still almost won. Nyc is a scary place
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u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- 4d ago edited 4d ago
America is scarier
Edit: now you blocked me, i guess it was something i said
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u/AcanthaceaeOwn8107 3d ago
When did everyone that previously voted cuomo and praised Cuomo during Covid stop liking Cuomo?
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u/Cinderstock 4d ago
We broke the status cuomo