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First results in New York City Primary (hexbear.net)

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Voters in the largest city in America are choosing a Democratic nominee for mayor via ranked-choice voting. The crowded field is led by former governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from the state’s top office four years ago following sexual harassment allegations; state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who snagged key endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York); Comptroller Brad Lander, who made headlines when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an immigration hearing last week; and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.

This is a ranked-choice primary – only first-choice votes will be tabulated on election night. Final vote calculations will be released July 1 and updated weekly until all ballots are counted. Republican Curtis Sliwa is uncontested in his primary.

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago

I can't shake the horrible feeling that once the lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated, we're going to see a centrist Voltron form around Cuomo like how the Democratic not-Bernie voters rallied around Biden in the 2020 primary.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago

IIRC many people also put Mamdani as their second choice.

We are going to see the NYT’s official endorsement of Curtis Sliwa very soon.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It could happen in the general, but in the primary the 3rd ranked candidate (Brad Lander) has cross-endorsed with Mamdani

edit: also Cuomo conceded the primary

[-] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

Socialism in One City

[-] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

Wonder how this guy is going to turn out to be a disappointment.

I said it first so I get to be right a year from now! Write it down.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

Well he is a liberal zionist. I don't think it really matters, and I don't know if I would say anything different to him were I in his position (I don't think it would win a lot of votes to say "I would make use of the armed forces of the NYPD to assist Hamas with doing 1000 more Al Aqsa Floods"). Not to mention he will probably have to be fighting the state government on everything.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

He is? I interpreted his response in that debate as endorsing the one-state solution but maybe I was wrong?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

It's a bit tomato tomahto. In theory, if Israel recognizes equal rights for Palestinians, then that's great and it would be a one state solution. In practice, that will never happen as long as "Israel" occupies Palestine. So if he was running for a position where his beliefs about Occupied Palestine actually mattered, I would want him to be pressed on how he thinks Israel should become a country where equal rights for Jews and Arabs are upheld, because that's the difference between liberal zionism and antizionism (liberal zionists would be happy to just wait for equal rights to materialize from nothing, antizionists believe in resistance and overthrowing the occupiers).

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

. In practice, that will never happen as long as "Israel" occupies Palestine.

I think he already knows this and his position is to not do any "no nos" and to at most lie by omission rather than lie outright. Would he have won if he didn't play that game anyway? Tough to say at this point; perhaps it would have been closer but I think he actually would have but I don't think zohran thought he would have at the time

imagine if everyone in the west bank/gaza and the diapora could vote to elect seats into the knesset... it would never happen.... but we could just advocate for it anyway and use it as a shield to beat the zios back with and what can they say? this would never happen but if it actually did I could only assume the knesset would at some point vote to change the name of the state to palestine.<---- no liberal zionist actually desires to allow this to happen but zohrans position was to exist in this weird position of thought so he didn't have to sacrifice his views on the question of Palestinians while still being able to stay stuff like "israel has a right to exist with equal rights" .

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Yeah I absolutely agree which is why I said it's only a technical difference, not to mention it simply doesn't matter as mayor of NYC. He's a good lad.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

I don't think it would win a lot of votes to say "I would make use of the armed forces of the NYPD to assist Hamas with doing 1000 more Al Aqsa Floods"

Sir, do you have any idea how BASED you were posting? columbo

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

Lets goo Zohran

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Thank you, Stalin

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

Talking head on NY1 said that they were expecting going into the night that Mamdani would have the early lead from early voting but as same day votes came in his lead over Cuomo would shrink. Except it’s held steady. He said we’re in “would require a statistical anomaly” territory for Cuomo to come back.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Yeah, it stayed steady as the votes came in. Barring any crazy RCV surprises he is the dem nominee

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

sicko-yes This is going to make so many shitty people so mad.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

It's at 85% reporting now and the numbers are pretty much the same.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Can somebody please explain to me how this works? Because I've read that the "final" vote isn't until November - so what the hell is this?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is the Democratic primary race. It’s ranked-choice, final results for this vote will be out on July 1st, but Mamdani is expected to gain over Cuomo from 2nd-ranks if anything, and Cuomo already conceded the primary to him. This is considered the Big Thing because most NYC residents are dems and so the dem primary is basically the mayoral race. That might be different this year as the (widely disliked) incumbent and Cuomo will be running as independents in the general mayoral election in November, and we might see a centrist bloc coalesce, but I wouldn’t underestimate the power of the (D) appearing by Mamdani’s name.

Edit: the general in November is not ranked-choice, so the centrist/conservative vote will be split 3-way. I’d be very surprised if Mamdani lost

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

They do instant run off or whatever version its called. One ballot where you rank, then they tabulate based on your ranking - he's a lib but CGP grey had a good series on voting systems (the systems were all for an imaginary animal based monarchy lol). Instant in this case sure feels like a stretch.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

It's the Democratic primary, the general still has to happen. It was basically assumed that the Democratic nominee would win the general.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Oh my fucking god Americans do party politics for municipal elections too? visible-disgust Jesus. Clown ass country. Deeply unserious.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

We do party politics for school board elections.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

what-the-hell

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

im rooting for eric adams, hes gonna make all haters waiters at the table of success

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

party-blob

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

"Authoritarianism is on the rise in NYC." —WaPo, next week (probably)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

So now the "vote blue no matter who" crowd will vote red?

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