Vote blue no matter who!
Ok the voters have chosen Mamdani, all the centrist Dems who demand progressives not run spoilers are gonna vote blue no matter who right?
Right?!
Vote blue no matter who!
Ok the voters have chosen Mamdani, all the centrist Dems who demand progressives not run spoilers are gonna vote blue no matter who right?
Right?!
How does he not get expelled from the democratic party for that? The party ran a primary, he lost. Now he wants to run against the democratic party candidate? Ok fin but be on your own bud. You’re expelled.
So choosing the "I didn't get control of the city so I'm going to be a spoiler candidate" option, I see. Real leader material.
Ranked choice voting makes it a lot harder to be a spoiler.
My understanding is ranked choice only applies to NYC primary and special elections. General elections are not ranked choice, which I believe the final mayoral to be.
So then why even bother to RCV if some asshat can continue to run after losing?
This might actually work against him. He'll split the scumbag vote with Adams.
You know, as a spoiler I get the sense he'll just make things that much worse for Adams. Friends in NYC I talked to said the only thing they didn't particularly like about Zohran was potential Defund the Police stuff. Yet, Adams and Cuomo are both pro-police centrists, so that vote gets split (aka deplorable vote).
You know, it's like how everyone saw RFK Jr. as a dem spoiler until polls showed he was taking more from Trump (hence him taking a bribe to drop out).
As I said before: I better not hear another liberal saying not to split the vote.
They are expecting Trump to come through and try to reject Mamdani from the country.
Let's fucking make sure this does not happen.
How? How does an average American do that? If they want him gone he could be detained and shipped out long before anyone could gather to say "no please if you wouldn't mind not destroying democracy more than you already have...."
(Note I am not an American, but seeing the state your country is in gives me anxiety by proxy. What would I be able to do if I was one?)
I don’t understand this. Is Cuomo listed as a Democrat on the next ballot? If so, what is the purpose of a primary, if a losing candidate can just keep running in the main election? Can anyone just put their name on the main ballot?
No, if he runs it will be as an independent, and he would have to meet whatever requirements NYC has for getting in the ballot as a third party/unaffiliated candidate. Theoretically he could even win as a write-in candidate without ever even qualifying for the ballot as that’s really just to keep ballots from being potentially ginormous. It’s only shitty because it’s him haha. The main thing is that by winning the primary Mamdani has secured access to the democrats party infrastructure while denying it to Cuomo. That’s not to say that the insiders in the party won’t be in the tank for Cuomo, but as far as party resources go it should all be Zohran.
Some people on Twitter (not saying it's a good or reliable source of news or political analysis, of course) were saying it's more likely to peel votes off of Adams; desperately hoping so…
He will definitely be splitting votes with Adams. That elusive centrist vote that Dems are always trying to go after.
Mamdani will get new voters and also voters that want a younger face. Many voters have tried corporate Dems for their whole life. They want something new.
Not to necessarily shift blame away from that scumbag sex abuser Cuomo , but I'm betting that the Democratic party leaders are behind this.
Who owns the machines, is the software audited, how do they count the votes, are there tabulation servers involved?
Of course he will still be on the ballot. Now they can fire up those alleged, but maybe not alleged funky doodle voting machines so he can magically win.
Someone else posted this, but I like the idea that Zohran's response should be "No means no, Cuomo"
That's not conceding, then.
And the rat fuck begins. Now we watch as DNC leaders endorse someone who lost their party's primary.
Hopefully this doesn't discourage New Yorkers from voting.
In other words, he'll support the Republican candidate by splitting the vote.
Only if centrists don't vote blue no matter who.
If Mamdani loses, I'm blaming all centrists no matter how they voted. After all, they blame every progressive for trump's wins.
Good.
Silwa, Adams, and Cuomo will split the vote of all the idiots.
Two neoliberals having to run as independents in a general because they can no longer win a Dem primary is a good thing.
They're no longer to buy their way thru the primary.
It's still ranked choice, I think.
Not for a regularly scheduled general election. Only the primaries and special elections
Now watch the "vote blue no matter who" party make excuses for why it's ok to vote third party now that the democratic nominee is a progressive and not the sex pest they prefer.
This guy needs to be deported And sued and investigated. I mean that how this works, right?
Who owns the machines, is the software audited, how do they count the votes, are there tabulation servers involved?
The Demonrats ask: oh why oh why do we keep loosing electorate? And they arrive to the conclusion: "Because we don't have a center-left Joe Rogan and because of those pesky extreme lefties."
Great. Now I have another reason to sit it out. Stupid Dems.
/s you angry mofos.
The DNC would rather try to split the vote and let a Republican win than allow any sort of socialist leaning person into power
The DNC would rather drive itself entirely into obscurity than allow any socialist into power.
In this case it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the DNC. New York allows him to continue to run despite losing the primary because he already qualified to be on the ballot.
It’s dumb, because he’s already conceded the primary, and he knows doing so is divisive, but the silver lining is that New York has ranked choice voting, at least.
And the party should make it very clear that they support zohran and that is it. Along with formally kicking him (Cuomo) out anyway.
Id like to point out that Andrew Cuomo himself is not divisive, unlike Mamdani. I thought he made that very clear in the debates? /s
As a ‘vote blue no matter who’ person who’s interned for two democratic members of congress, I am increasingly viewing the DNC as an active threat to america on par with the GOP
Man I fucking wish Blue no matter who worked but God damn it fucking don't huh
The motto is frankly terrible and on its face a lowkey dig at actual genuine democracy...like spitting in our faces. Im actually glad the rabid reactionaries are taking it to you guys on that front, its just awful messaging. I am a blue collar rural worker, and from my perspective it seems we need nothing short of bolshevism. And fast. "Anti fascism" as a method for combatting fascism simply won't cut it.
Do you think Cuomo can really peel off that many?
If you run in a primary, you shouldn’t be allowed to then turn around and run again under a different party or as an independent. You’re just wasting party resources, and everyone’s time.
BULLSHIT. What a bunch of fucks.
They're ratfucking him. I think we need to spread that word, it's fun to say, people generally immediately understand what you mean when you say it, and it leaves less wiggle room than calling bullshit
They’re trying. Whether they do or not remains to be seen.
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