also, my impression from the outside is that cuomo didn’t actually campaign. he just relied on name recognition and paid media. i think voters sensed the entitlement!
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I think the youngins finally came out! I worked real estate and apartments. NYC is FILLED with young, human rights forward individuals trying to make their dreams come true. I love it and NYC never, ever ceases to amaze me!
NYC is ever evolving and reinventing itself. Even though I can’t stay more than two days when I visit friends, it’s always an amazing time. Going to Harlem now as opposed to the 80’s is like night and day. My dad grew up there and it was another scene entirely. A fascinating city.
He is so arrogant he thought his name recognition would win him this race. Zohran showed young people all over the US, you can run and win even against big money.
Sounds like what happened in the last Virginia gubernatorial race. Terry McAuliffe barely campaigned and thought he was just going to swan in for a second term. People sensed the entitlement and acted accordingly.
He seemed to spend a whole lot of money, tho. Is shmoozing for endorsements from Clyburn, Clinton, sucking up the Bloomberg $$$ considered campaigning or did he actually need to lower his holy self and go out and speak to real constituents?
This is very true. He “campaigned” mainly via mailers, more to say on that mode later. But his (or his surrogate org’s) mailers were uniquely, in my more than 50 years involved with NYC politics, so pointedly aimed at portraying a candidate ostensibly from the same party as being “scary”.
100%. Cuomo ran a lackluster campaign. Mamdani was not my first choice because of policy differences but it was hard not to like him on a personal level and honestly it was hard not to absolutely despise Cuomo.
The city running grocery stores would be a top one. The city already does a less than ideal job at providing various desperately needed services and groceries are a tough business. We need to improve the services already within the scope of what the city does instead of adding to it.
While you're not wrong, you might check into municipal groceries as done in other cities. Food Deserts are a very real thing, and I can't imagine that NYC is the only city to have problems with them.
If cities want to address food deserts, and NYC does already have programs specifically targeted to this, the best way is to help small independents bring fresh food. Sadly I have seen so much good fresh food go to waste in food deserts because people still spend their money on ultra processed food.
That seems a weird way to
Go. Relying on just his name. And for the rest of the media to just keep talking about him…. Well, I guess that’s how Trump really won. Go with the winning strategy
After 2024, we'd be forgiven for not realizing that voters were in fact capable of sensing anything at all so this is, to say the least, a pleasant surprise.
This tracks since Cuomo's current vote % is around the same level as when he announced last Feb. No bump, no enthusiasm, no ground game, lots of endorsements from people who don't vote in NYC - including Cuomo himself 😊
People know a lying rat bastard! The dude was a hollow suit out for revenge because he was kicked out. And for the next week, I say we clown the Corpse Caucus. They ain't SHIT
I just don't understand people voting for Cuomo. Why? They know he is crap. I am also interested in hearing how the election went. I heard that they were not allowing some people to vote that should have been allowed to.
Dude Mamdani *won* this thing with a popular policy agenda and an optimistic campaign that championed a vision for the city. Why are you trying to tear down what his movement built? Cuomo didn’t lose this, Mamdani won it!
That’s definitely my feeling as someone living in the city. I saw his negative ads, and him saying he had experience. But I’m not sure of a single proposal he had?
When will the political establishment finally get a clue that their time is over and they will never dictate whose turn it is at the levers of power. We don't want kings and we don't want political dynasties!!
I wish we had ranked choice in all our primaries and general election. While Mamdani won the plurality today, it is because of the alliances he built that made so many voters were comfortable voting for one of the other candidates and ranking him likely 2nd. It is a great voting system.
Yeah, I agree for sure they sensed Cuomo’s entitlement. They also sensed the allegations of sexual harassment, his impeachment investigation, his investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the questionable report he used to combat criticism.
It was the most cynical campaign I’ve ever seen darth and I’ve seen my share tbh
At the end Cuomo was like “uh vote fah me cause of Israel and the police, fuhgeddabout it”
The question in my mind is, will leftists now finally shut up about the shadowy cabal they think rules the Dem party & was supposed to deliver the primary for Cuomo?
The NY Democratic Party machine isn’t going anywhere. It started in the 19th century and it’s far from dead. Gonna take a LOT more Zohran-like campaigns to even put a dent in it.
100% this! The other candidates were showing up to events, protests, marches, etc. Cuomo was absent on the ground. He didn’t even come out when Lander was arrested by ICE. He ran a lazy campaign and people reacted accordingly.
This thread from a photographer of who he voted for affirms this. Cuomo was pretty much absent; just reinforces the running theory that he wants to try and run for President
Evidently Cuomo relied upon the Lauren Boebert method of getting elected to office. Just don’t do anything and rely upon name recognition.
She didn’t do a damn thing to get elected back into her congressional seat other than jumping districts from a purple district to a red district.
Overall, tactics used by Cuomo that might have worked nationally or state wide did not work here. Your average New Yorker can sniff out bs and grift in a way most can’t.
Yeah, when fossils like Clyburn and predators like Bill are pushing you…..endorsements from right wing billionaires like Bloomberg are almost preferable!
Andrew Cuomo parked in the middle of the street to shake the hands of rich donors behind closed doors and Mamdani walked every inch of this magnificent city taking selfies with real people. NYC noticed
And of course: "A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party
The emergence of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is likely to divide national Democrats, who are already torn about what the party should stand for."
Yes we did. Mamdani wasn't my first choice Adrienne Adams was, then Lander, then Momdani.... but I could not vote for Cuomo who is so arrogant and didn't even seem like he likes NYC
He kind of did at the very last minute. But poorly. I actually did have Cuomo canvassers come to my door, but after I voted which means they had bad lists. I also got a dozen calls and texts, but again after I voted, their lists and targeting were bad.
That shit about not picking between the Yankees and the Mets was a terrible idea. You can't be that openly a coward and expect voters to gravitate towards you.
Sports is the one area where we're allowed to be completely unhinged and people are just like yeah that's fine. If he'd been like I want to raze the homes of Mets fans and orphan their kids it would have played better. Anything but cowardice.
I never saw Cuomo and did not hear of a single person I know seeing him this spring. He hid, fearmongered , and hoped to be remembered as his father’s son.
that is literally what I have been staking my hopes on. that the reflexive contrarianism of the American voter and the NYCer in particular would fuck Cuomo over
I think he relied upon the super power that is the inertia of white male privilege. MAGA spawns from the realization that the world is growing tired of the existence of that historically devastating super power.
and his (un)earned media was generally negative--things like ostentatiously driving everywhere and parking in the middle of a manhattan street--that i think reminded people of his general contempt for the city when he was governor
Or, 'crosses fingers, says a little prayer' Americans are once again viewing disgraced sex predators in a bad light as a choice for powerful public office.
Similar situation in Massachusetts back when Ted Kennedy died. Dems ran Martha Coakley, one of the most lackluster candidates, and who did not campaign vigorously. She lost to a REPUBLICAN in Massachusetts. Which gave us Scott Brown and lost the Dems the 60th senate seat vote.
FDR warned the rich elite that if they didn't throw the Poors a bone, communism might take over America just like Russia. FDR's rich fuckhead friends listened to him. Trump is not smart enough to try to pump the breaks. We won't get communism, but I'd welcome socialism.
Truth.Never got a text call or mailer fr his campaign.Even as AG then as Gov he lived in a small bubble feeding him only good info for his ego.Same people ran campaign. Andy really doesn’t want to be Mayor but was the only opening to get him back in the game. Obv from his AI shit and no campaigning.
Yes. His paid canvassers were bad at the job and probably turned more votes away than they gained. To say nothing of saturating Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune with the same fucking ad back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
He was Speaker of the House, ushered in the giant tax cut bill, then bounced in 2018 so he didn’t get any of the stink on him. He’ll be running in 2028 or 2032
I told my boyfriend yesterday that the bulk of the people voting for Cuomo are probably the ones who are old enough to have sat through all of his terms as adults and he's the only figure they're familiar with.
He was ready to govern on day 1 and had all the correct endorsements. Why would he need to campaign? Unfortunately the voters failed to give him the win he was fully entitled to.
Remember, Poe's Law is in full effect: There are morons out there who GENUINELY believe that the sexpest scumbag aristocratic parasite WAS entitled to power.
What he's actually entitled to, is to disappear. Fade away. Dustbin of history. Either that or disgrace and infamy.
Mamdani walked the length of Manhattan talking to voters. Cuomo had a driver drive him 5 blocks from where he was staying (he doesn’t live in NYC) to his polling place. Source: Bulwark live broadcast a few minutes ago.
He was absolutely the wrong candidate. No energy, deep establishment, mediocre record, not in a position to harness the energy seen by Indivisible protests.
But I'm worried the DSA candidate is going to blow up in our face.
Yeah, he may turn out to be DeBlasio II. The free buses sound nice but you've got to have a way to pay for them. I would have preferred another progressive who is deeply familiar with the issues involved with running the largest city in the nation.
Remember when Media used the manipulated algorithms to shove their candidate into office in 2020? The algorithm numbers didn’t show up to vote democrat but more numbers showed up for the other party?
We chose Biden because our fellow Americans in South Carolina gave us the chance. We did it.
Americans need a formal, legal method that prevents people like him from running for political office. Ancient Greeks had one. Don't we deserve the same considerstion?
Scary part is if thats completely factual, his name carried far more weight than anything. Had they actually made the effort then, and may as an independent now, it could create a huge mess.
I don’t believe so. Cuomo’s concession speech was the final nail in his elected political coffin. His speech was effusively pro @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . Cuomo would be running against himself in the General
They tried for this primary and will try in the general. Their best chance of defeat was in the primary. Z’s movement growth has momentum reminiscent of Obama 2007-2008. Z continues to gain support far and wide. Here’s to Hope. He us the Hope of generation Z (and me, GenX)
I'm only getting it secondhand from people in NYC sharing stuff, but holy crap it sounded like he (and probably mainly his supporters/PACs/whatever) spent an absolute fortune flooding everywhere with ads/flyers/mailers/commercials/etc.
I like Mandamis youthful energy and I despise the Islamophobia behind some of the attacks. I’m also in favor of more socialism, but he doesn’t have management experience or seemingly much understanding of economics. But I wish him well.
He relied a lot on the local groups that previously supported him and was not really putting in the work. Meanwhile mamdani and lander were everywhere, they were on radio shows, influencer accounts and in neighborhoods and places of worship.
I thought he stepped down over harassment claims? If so why did he think he had a chance? Because Trump was re-elected? He thought we might re-elect him to prove some weird point? I am in no way mad at “establishment” Ds because I think it’s a ruse to divide the left but I don’t think
Lots of lessons to be learned from 2016 of course but I think the most obvious one is "you can't just get an elected position because you think you've earned it and it's your turn" and yet!
ENTITLEMENT ... just the thought of it makes me nauseas as it's a disease that needs to be eradicated by any means ... all of us certainly have the power to do so ...
Exactly! As an older NYer that ranked Zohran Mamdani #1, I felt Cuomo came in as if he deserved it. He blew off the sexual harrassment charges as if they were a joke, which is totally disrespectful to women! This isn't a redemption job. It's about helping all NYers not just himself!
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Go. Relying on just his name. And for the rest of the media to just keep talking about him…. Well, I guess that’s how Trump really won. Go with the winning strategy
Not 1.
Entirely top down and outside money
but gut feeling is retail politics is forming as response to
........all the things
At the end Cuomo was like “uh vote fah me cause of Israel and the police, fuhgeddabout it”
Too many times a family name or association bumps a better candidate out of the running.
New York is wise.
They are able to genuinely use critical thinking and know how to apply it towards their interests.
Honestly, Cuomo was damaged goods out of the gate.
She didn’t do a damn thing to get elected back into her congressional seat other than jumping districts from a purple district to a red district.
Three blocks.
Unless his legs are broken he’s clearly saying he’s too good to do what every other New Yorker (not named Trump) does on the regular.
(especially contrasted with photos of Cuomo getting in and out of his car)
Also, shouldn’t we all be tired of electing the same old deeply flawed retreads of yesteryear? I would think so.
I think I'll use that term more often...
It kinda suits the role...
The emergence of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is likely to divide national Democrats, who are already torn about what the party should stand for."
"Fractured," as in Cuomo got whupped.
if you can't be brave about your sports opinion, how can you be brave at a time when we need it more than ever?
(meaning, let 'name recognition' and 'paid media' be a thing of the distant past, stat)
Mamdani and Lander wanted to be Mayor of New York City and people felt that.
Heeeerrrreeees hopin!
Nope!
I thanked them for the heads-up and told them I still wasn’t ranking him.
Remember, Poe's Law is in full effect: There are morons out there who GENUINELY believe that the sexpest scumbag aristocratic parasite WAS entitled to power.
What he's actually entitled to, is to disappear. Fade away. Dustbin of history. Either that or disgrace and infamy.
But I'm worried the DSA candidate is going to blow up in our face.
We chose Biden because our fellow Americans in South Carolina gave us the chance. We did it.
I just have so little trust in the Democrat party not to pull the rug so to speak.
(I don’t live in NY so I didn’t pay attention to the campaigning.)
The Trillionaire Class.
"Big Beautiful Billionaire Bill"