Actress Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City to run for NY Governor

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Inclined to call it now and say the governor's race is a done deal.

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At the very least it looks like some IDC members are going down. Plus Williams has a decent shot at winning the LG race.

If Williams wins without Nixon, it will finally be proof that New York progressives are actually sexists.

:I

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Julia Salazar is destroying Dilan:

https://twitter.com/samknight_one/status/1040414301314592768

Not surprised, tbh. Even with all the Salazar controversies, Dilan's primary opponent in 2016 openly admitted to beating her son and still got 40% of the vote.

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Who's gonna win LG and AG?

Hochul's likely to pull ahead in the LG race as Williams is underperforming upstate, and neither Teachout nor Maloney are gonna be able to catch up to James in the AG race.

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Tony Avella is one of the last centrist Democrats in New York City. Sad.

He represents white ethnic blue collar outerborough voters.

Can Vicki Paladino beat John Liu in November? Possibly not. Paladino is well known because she confronted Mayor de Blasio in 2017.

https://qns.com/story/2018/04/17/two-republicans-little-neck-whitestone-launch-bids-avellas-queens-state-senate-seat/

lolowned

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Teachout and Maloney split the vote here - I think either one of them would have had a shot to beat James alone.

That's why I'm mad that Maloney decided to run for AG. He had no reason to.

Some people on Twitter are saying that he intentionally ran to siphon off votes from Teachout and give the election to James. I don't think that's the case, I think he's just enough of a narcissist to believe he could've actually won.

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So what's so bad about Dilan exactly? He's the only non-IDC incumbent losing.

Incredibly close to developers and landlords.

Teachout and Maloney split the vote here - I think either one of them would have had a shot to beat James alone.

That's why I'm mad that Maloney decided to run for AG. He had no reason to.

He's a very right-wing Democrat who pretended to be progressive. I suspect he was there to split the vote.

He never branded himself as a "progressive". He was running a pretty bland centrist campaign to appeal to upstate voters.

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At the very least we can hope that without the IDC there's more pressure on Cuomo to, you know, actually pass progressive legislation. But it's still a very depressing night.

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If you are talking in general this year, then I would have too long of a list.

Well, considering how many self-styled progressives have lost to good Dems this year, I am not sure you want both sides of that list compiled

you do realize the progressive list would be larger, right? Good, or moderate, I guess is what you mean, Dems have been doing rather poorly this year, on all levels.

No, I do not In fact, I have been surprised how short it has been so far. Good Dems have been doing a lot better than the self-styled progressives.

What are you talking about? Alright, who do you consider a good Dem?

Clintons, Cuomo - you know, the old crowd

I am being deliberately facetious I do not mind your guys either. At this point, all these within-party divisions do not matter: we are in the age of Trump, aren't we? But I was amused by how you tried to repackage a clear and comfortable win by Cuomo somehow as his loss. It was a bad spin - and I had some fun at your expense.

More seriously, though, Dems have not gone too radical this year. Only 2 Dem incumbents in the House lost the primary so far - and one of those was not any different on policy issues from the challenger. Nominees for open/Republican seats are not very radical either, for the most part. And now that the primary season is over you would do well advertising this to the general electorate. Unless, of course, you do not care at all about who controls the federal government.

So, you basically have provided no one who is associated with the more moderate Clintonite branch, while I could hand you a list of the Progressives who have won, including Eastman, Davis, Golden, Hayes, literally all of the CA Orange county challengers, Gillum, Iron Stache, AOC, Talib, Omar, Garcia, Corday, Kim, Wallace, Wild, I could go on.

And its already been proven that no one cares about the ideology of candidates, proven by the fact that progressives are already leading in polling in tossup/lean R districts, with moderates, funnily enough, doing worse.

I mean, just today Cuomo and Hochul won in the biggest races of the day, haven't they? You really want me to continue?

Yes, nobody cares about the ideology of a particular candidate: it is all a trademark. What you want to avoid is that the trademark becomes radicalised: then even the moderates will start losing.

And we just saw progressive candidates knock out 6 of the 8 former IDC members? Races where ideology clearly mattered? (Not even including Salazar who was endorsed by DSA and ran against a literal developer/landlord shill?)

I don't think you know what you're talking about, buddy.

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Andrew Cuomo Keeps Hiring Republicans

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/11/anrew-cuomo-cynthia-nixon-primary/

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I just saw this yesterday. This just make Nixon's loss even more sad. New York's Democratic Party needs some spring cleaning bigly. Too many Republican cooperators lurking around.

Where is the news? It was in 2014 and 2017. I don't know about these individuals, but does the fact that they're Republicans automatically make them HPs? Not that Obama had Republicans in the cabinet or agencies? The source is also not completely neutral, just saying. The self-proclaimed progressives' war on Cuomo never stops at a point? Not saying Cuomo is holy man, he made some mistakes over his tenure, but his overall record is pretty good.

The best part about being an Andrew Cuomo fan is being completely ignorant about what Andrew Cuomo does while in office.

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Any word on if Nixon is staying on the WFP line?

I don't think she's still running.