NY 2022 - Zeldin/Esposito, Libertarian & WFP updates

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So I assume we're still waiting for a decent chunk of votes to be counted here that will likely expand Hochul (and other statewide Democrat's) margins a bit, correct?

A really poor showing either way though! It'd be one thing if Zeldin was a legitimate moderate and this was the result but he was basically another Trump nut who made a half-assed attempt to portray himself as somewhat moderate in the lead-up to the general election and I guess it worked to some extent. He's not quite Mastriano/Lake/etc. but yikes.

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Do we know the final statewide result?

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Did we ever end up getting final results?

I thought they're already in. For governor it's 52.4%-46.7%. Around 326k raw votes difference.

Do we know that for sure?

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It's interesting to compare Zeldin's numbers in NYC vs Romney who did extremely badly in NYC, Trump improved in both 2016 and 2020 and Zeldin did better than Trump.

Manhattan: +69D > +64D
Bronx: +83D > +55D
Brookyln: +65D > +43D
Queens: +59D > +26D

Pretty interesting that Zeldin did barely any better in Manhattan than Romney, speaks to how fast college whites in NYC are trending democratic, Zeldin could only marginally outperform Romney.

What in god's name happened to the Bronx? Seems like all the NY Dem underperformance largely comes from NYC (though Schumer had the biggest losses in Upstate, compared to the previous elections).

It's pretty clear from the results that many blacks and especially hispanics didn't bother to come out to vote this year in New York.

[Eraserhead]

Wikipedia now has Hochul at 53.2% and Zeldin at 46.8% so without bothering to look deeply into this I'm assuming more votes have finally been counted.

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Starting to think this state is beyond help at this point. I held my nose and voted for Hochul but I'm almost wondering if we would have been better off with a one-term right-winger (which is what Zeldin would have been). Maybe progressives in the state would have finally woken up and cleaned out some of the state's "Democratic Party".