• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
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    15 hours ago

    Please, explain how the largest turnout in decades represents how “the left” doesnt vote.

    Just give me a minute to make some popcorn so I can fully enjoy this.

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      15 hours ago

      Most of them probably thought Mamdani wasn’t as left as their buddy’s roommate’s drug dealer so he wasn’t worth voting for.

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        15 hours ago

        Sorry, how does that explain a 20 year record turnout, or the highest number of votes for a single candidate since the 1960s?

        Youre going to have to break this down a little bit more here, clearly I still dont get it.

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            14 hours ago

            Previous election results show that liberals and more moderate conservatives voted for Cuomo, actually, considering Silwa’s 20% slide.

            So sorry, it seems I’m still not getting “it”.

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                14 hours ago

                Really isnt.

                Youre suggesting liberals voted for Mamdani.

                The math on that math just ain’t mathing.

                I’m saying liberals, on the whole, voted for Cuomo. The previous voter turnout in 2021 equates to roughly the totals of Silwa and Cuomo.

                Districts that previously felt without representation voted in droves for Mamdani.

                I do not see how we are saying the same thing. I’d love an explanation for how “liberals voted Cuomo” and “liberals voted Mamdani” are the same (I wasn’t an English major or anything, sorry), or how someone being actually left of the establishment drawing record numbers of voters is proof that “the left” doesnt vote.

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                    14 hours ago

                    It really is, but so is the population, which is why its kind of bizarre. Add to that ranked choice recently coming in, and new ways that some candidates (Cuomo) skirted and occasionally broke the law with regards to campaign funding using the local equivalent of super PACs and it gets real weird real fast.

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                  14 hours ago

                  1.9 million liberals voted Harris in presidential election and about a million conservatives voted Trump.

                  Cuomo and Silva had about a million votes (the conservatives) and Mamdani got a million of the liberals.

                  Easy peasy math for you!

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                    14 hours ago

                    Two different elections doesnt really cover that, no. Youre comparing a presidential election to a mayoral election, which is super weird, which occurred in different years.

                    That’s some really bad math IMO.