Poll says 44% of voters for Mamdani and 25% for Cuomo as Elise Stefanik chips away at Hochul’s lead in governor race
Wouldn’t this imply the primary he won was literally worthless? It seems the vast majority of Cuomo folks are still voting Cuomo in the general.
NYC uses ranked choice voting, so this poll result is expected. If someone’s first choice was Cuomo in the primary, why should they change that? They can put Mamdani second.
I agree with you, ranked choice voting does make the whole concept of primaries largely redundant. And yes, Cuomo, along with other party bourgeois, is turncoat for not endorsing Mamdani after the primary.
The mayoral race isn’t RCV; only the primary is. The actual election is FPTP.
You’re right, the general is FPTP. That’s dumb.
It is, but more pressingly it means we’re seeing the numbers in the OP in an FPTP election. That’s what I meant by the primary being worthless; the whole point of the primary is that everyone rallies behind the winner to not lose by splitting the vote, but that isn’t happening. It’s the latest finishing blow on a long list of finishing blows to the delusion that “vote blue no matter who” was ever anything more than a way to get the left to self-sabotage.
Mamdani is a rarity in that he’s a politician who’s not a traitorous piece of shit. I wish him and his supporters all the best in this fight against the corporatist thugs.
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Is Mamdani the only one running who isn’t a criminal?
