Keep in mind that NY is using ranked-choice voting.

Take the most recent poll showing Mamdani ahead by double digits... but with only 35% of the vote... then Cuomo with 25%... then Silwa and Adams with 14% and 11% respectively. We have no idea where the undecideds will end up in the end... but if you drop Adams' 11%... it's highly unlikely that many of those voters would have Mamdani as their second choice. So then it comes down to where the Silwa voters ranked the remaining two candidates.

Ranked choice isn't used in the general election. Cuomo is polling at 24%, Mamdani at 40%. Cuomo can't win.

All that math and speculation and not understanding the basic rules.

get in the way of a good rant. I 🤣🤣🤣

I’m sure this will make his maga loving brother Fredo happy.

he's an effer too.

Mamdani’s positions should be the basic Democratic platform. They pretty much used to be. We need to get back to our staunchly pro-labor days and jettison these corporate scumbags and oligarchs.

Supporting Cuomo is a large 'fuck you' to women everywhere who have been the victims of Cuomo-style sexual predation.

Mamdani trounced him once; it's clear that Mamdani is popular with NY voters, and that sleazy sex pest Cuomo isn't. I think he hopes ranked-choice voting will give him a chance by aggregating the votes for other candidates to him, but considering who the other candidates are (Eric Adams? Curtis Sliwa?) I don't think it will happen.

Where I live, Minneapolis, we use RCV in the general election for municipal officials. I should have checked NY.

And some say there are not cults on the left.

Like, rigorously rigorously.

from Mamdani to insure that Adams prevails and keeps our Orange Felon King happy.

Adams isn’t popular right now (I guess cozying up to Trump kept him out of jail but is likely to lose him his job), and Silwa appears to be a spoiler for Adams. It’s kinda funny.

These three (Adams, Cuomo, and Silwa) have giant egos and are completely splitting the anti-Mamdani vote. Mamdani is running a very impressive campaign right now. I think even Cuomo acknowledged that. I don’t see Cuomo winning, unless Adams drops out and maybe endorses him, though I wonder how much good an Adams endorsement would do him at this point.

I don't think Sliwa, Adams or Cuomo will get out of each other's way so 40 to 45% should be plenty for Mandami. But I'm not a New Yorker so I'm just guessing.

I think Adams making nice with Trump was a step too far for New York dems. They’re mostly going to be split between Cuomo and Mamdani, since there’s a significant faction of moderate dems in the city that are likely turned off by the ‘socialist’ tag and his stance on Israel.

Cuomo is going to get a lot from moneyed interests, like real estate and AIPAC.

Then the anti-Mamdani vote will be split x number of ways and Mamdani will win.

I'm not a Democrat because it's convenient nor as a fashion choice.

or that he cares about anything outside of his own self-interest.

Does NYC have ranked choice for the general in November?

If no candidate gets 50% does it force a runoff?

RCV is only used in primaries, not in the general election.

Do you have a link confirming it isn’t?

Can you link to that post?

But if you want a link, here you go: https://www.nycvotes.org/how-to-vote/ranked-choice-voting/

I say it is. Happy to consider evidence that I’m wrong.

Most lib dems are happy w Mamdani. As to national figures I read Clinton and Clyburn endorsed Mamdani.

I appreciate your response. Seems odd to me that someone(s) would spend money and resources over ego or sour grapes.

Does it carry a lot of weight with NYC voters?

35% ??