To paraphrase: And yet he won. In a city that’s not particularly liberal.
That doesn’t really make sense under the left-right paradigm, under which he’s too far left and should lose the centrists. There’s something else going on that this paradigm does not capture, and DSA candidates are doing well all over.
It’s hard to compare, because the establishment Democrats decided to split the vote by running Cuomo as an independent. The election had the highest turnout since '93, including lots of new voters. That’s what was missing in Harris’s loss in the Presidential election—voter turnout.
It’s really not a hard formula: Promise to do things to address the pain points in people’s lives, speak out on moral issues that people care about, like genocide, and have the courage of your convictions. Give people an affirmative reason to vote for you, rather than shout at and blame those who didn’t.
To paraphrase: And yet he won. In a city that’s not particularly liberal.
That doesn’t really make sense under the left-right paradigm, under which he’s too far left and should lose the centrists. There’s something else going on that this paradigm does not capture, and DSA candidates are doing well all over.
He won by a smaller margin than Harris, that’s not a recipe for a general election theory.
He did lose the centrists, it’s why his margin of victory was smaller than Harris’, who was much more centrist.
In Democratic primaries and strongholds. The same is true of trumpian candidates in Republican primaries and strongholds.
It’s hard to compare, because the establishment Democrats decided to split the vote by running Cuomo as an independent. The election had the highest turnout since '93, including lots of new voters. That’s what was missing in Harris’s loss in the Presidential election—voter turnout.
It’s really not a hard formula: Promise to do things to address the pain points in people’s lives, speak out on moral issues that people care about, like genocide, and have the courage of your convictions. Give people an affirmative reason to vote for you, rather than shout at and blame those who didn’t.