"I want people to have food"

gasps

It would certainly give me pause!

Establishment Dems splitting the vote.

Those fucking fuckers. Decades of “eat this big pile of shit because we painted it blue, fall in line, don’t split the vote”

The DNC, which over my life I’ve donated thousands of dollars to support their candidates, can eat my entire ass. Not one fucking cent to those bastards.

Also to note for others: NYC only has ranked choice for mayor in primaries (or special elections), so there is no ranked choice in this general election

I vote for Not Sure. He's the smartest man in the world.

Aw... they did poor Curtis Silwa dirty.

Like, Mamdani all the way. But if I've got to pick between those last three, Silwa's clearly the least awful choice.

He needs to have the most supporters possible to help fight that obstacle.

Hey so let’s not go ham on the pessimism just yet. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong in a lot of places, yes, but we’re seeing a lot of good things so far. Let’s not assume he and the movement he’s starting is gonna fail a priori.

Yes so New Yorkers need to get out there and raise hell if Trump even so much as tries to touch Mamdani. Fail to do that and democracy is well and truly dead.

Depends on the size of the wave behind him. Studies have shown a wall alone isn't as effective at stopping large waves. Now when there are effective and thought out breakers further out, the wave tends to have little effect.

Thankfully, this administration is incompetent. Problem though is the amount of resources they have and a Democratic, and Nationwide resistance, that can't stop eating their boots for failure of any true effectiveness.

We need a leader. Just like the Republicans, we need a person, or person, we can rally behind. Figureheads that stand as tall as Trump. Until then, what we have are several broken fronts working loosely together against a larger, [mostly] coordinated force.

It’s almost like someone needs to do something about that wall. But by all means, keep waiting for someone to come save you.

Maybe the real progressives were the Democrats we made along the way.

It's as if IG is controlled by a billionaire so cowardly and manipulative the far left and right hate his guts.

Is he posting as much stuff? I'm not saying you are wrong, but I wonder if he's put out less stuff if he's trying to recalibrate his campaign for the general election.

Zohran the Destroyer!

Or whatever label his opponents came up with that make him sound badass

In all honesty I think they do more harm than good. It gets it into the morons heads “oh, he’s going to win, I can stay home”.

I keep seeing this line printed over and over again, in every election cycle, by people who seem to think there really is this enormous body of people who are enthusiastic about a candidate but unenthusiastic about voting.

Hell, Cuomo complained about it shortly after the election. He lost because too many people liked him too much and thought his win was assured. I heard this after Brexit. I heard it after Hillary lost in 2016 and after Trump lost in 2020 and after Harris lost in 2024. We can have historic high turnouts and historic low turnouts. We can have sea changes in the composition and ideology of the voters. We can have scandals flood the papers a day before the election that throw polls into chaos and candidates who coast to victory on double-digit margins. (Incidentally, Mamdani won by 12% in an election he was projected to lose by more than that a month earlier). The "I was secretly so popular that people forgot to vote for me" myth endures.

I've got an alternative hypothesis. Maybe people turned out for Mamdani because they liked him a lot and people stayed home for Cuomo because he was a creepy sex-pest POS. It had nothing to do with their projected odds of winning and everything to do with their appeal as political leaders.

Let's move so we can vote for him!