Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.

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[–] -5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I don't understand why people are so hot on Mamdani. His vote totals were actually significantly lower than most recent Democrat nominees in this primarily Democratic city.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Because according to conventional wisdom. People like him weren't supposed to be able to win.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    According to progressive wisdom he should be able to win elsewhere but even in blue Minneapolis the same kind of progressive lost.

    It's not a silver bullet and the person replying above you that it takes all kinds is entirely right. I like mamdani but there's not a shot in hell he'd win my city.

    But hey, I'm sure more purity tests will help progressives as always.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I'm an anarchist. Honestly, I don't believe that there should be anyone with more power than a mayor. And that the mayor of New York has too much power already. But that's neither here nor there.

    Everyone, every group of people is different. They're is no magic bullet. No one size fits all. My city is also to ignorant and insular for a similar candidate to win. Currently. But it doesn't always have to be that way.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Why are you acting like this wasn't a race between democrats though? The Republican canidate and any other 3rd party canidates had no chance.

    In the primary Mamdani beat all the other democrats. Then for the general the run of the mill corporate democrat ran independent and still lost.

    It's essentially a race showing us the type of democrats proffered by democratic voters

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Well, yeah, since the Democrat he beat in the primary ran against him as an independent in the general election. So of course that cut his margin of victory.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago

    Didn't hear to much from our blue maga lemmitors about the spoiler effect for that NYC mayoral race. I wonder why.

    /u/Rhoeri@lemmy.world got anything for us buddy?

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