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Paleo's avatar

Yes. Discussed in the digest.

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Mike in MD's avatar

Applying ranked choice here, Cuomo crosses 50% in the seventh round. By the tenth and final one, he defeats Mamdani 70-30 in a one-on-one.

It should be remembered that there's still time for things to change; had polling in March 2021 held up, then Mayor Andrew Yang would be running for reelection. But Cuomo is much stronger than Yang, and defeating him will probably require a quick coalescing around one serious opposition candidate, and I'm not at all sure if Mamdani is or should be it, at least from an electoral perspective.

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ArcticStones's avatar

Surely we can find an additional ten candidates who wish to become Mayor of NYC? Clearly there are not enough people in this race.

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

Yeah, RCV in the city is a mess because ideologues rank only one or two people and leave the rest blank. Whose idea was it?

On another subject, will they resume the federal case on Eric Adams when he's out of office (they didn't dismiss with prejudice so as to keep a Sword of Damocles over him)? Goodness knows what they thought they could get out of him. All he can do is moan about how powerless he is to stop crime, migrants, etc.

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