NY-14: Goliath falls to OCASIO!

[Donerail]

I've always found it interesting how machine politics tends to be very big in minority districts like NY-14 and IL-03, even when the machine's politicians usually (though not always) are white.

Anybody know why this is?

Districts often changed around the machines (sometimes around the specific incumbents). Ed Burke was elected as Alderman of Chicago's 14th Ward when it was mostly an Irish Catholic area and has simply stayed in power as the neighborhoods changed. The strategies to maintaining power aren't much different, though it does create some vulnerabilities that weren't present before; Burke's brother lost his (heavily Latino) State House seat this year to a 26-year-old CPS counselor and soccer coach, Aarón Ortíz, who successfully painted Burke as oit of touch with the majority of the district's residents. Ocasio-Cortez is attempting to exploit the same opening.

[Donerail]

Here's a another striking thing about AOC. She is yet another Democratic Socialist from the DSA to win like the candidates in Philly and Lee Carter, who are a few examples. Anyone has a guess as to why this small (but rapidly growing) organization is so successful?

Since Bernie it has kinda been a right of passage for Progressive outsiders to join the DSA.

there are many reasons that explain the DSA's recent electoral success but the idea that joining an org with ~30k members is a "rite of passage for progressive outsiders" is not it.