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

[LabourJersey]

If Cuomo loses the Dem nomination but is nominated for Working Families and/or Women's Equality Party (which is apparently stacked with Cuomo's people), do you think he'd win the general?

Cuomo has done everything in his power to destroy the Working Families Party, so I don't understand why would they throw him a lifeline.

If Nixon loses but gets the Working Families line in the general, things can get interesting

[BuckeyeNut]

I wonder if Cuomo will bring back his dad's famous "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" rallying cry from 1977.  

Wtf?

And back then, it was Ed Koch who was rumored to be gay.

Read the bottom right.

[CatoMinor]

In other news, in that article linked above, Cuomo emplied pro-life people don't belong in New York State. Interesting. 

[GlobeSoc]

I wonder what a general election race between Cynthia Nixon(D), Andrew Cuomo (I), and Some Guy (R) would look like...

[MAINEiac4434]

I wonder what a general election race between Cynthia Nixon(D), Andrew Cuomo (I), and Some Guy (R) would look like...

Something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York,_1980

[Landslide Lyndon]

I wonder what a general election race between Cynthia Nixon(D), Andrew Cuomo (I), and Some Guy (R) would look like...

Something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York,_1980

Except that there is no way in hell a Republican takes 45% of the vote in 2018.

[Tintrlvr]

I wonder what a general election race between Cynthia Nixon(D), Andrew Cuomo (I), and Some Guy (R) would look like...

Something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York,_1980

Except that there is no way in hell a Republican takes 45% of the vote in 2018.

There were a lot of headwinds for the Democrats in that election. Misogyny definitely weighed on Holtzman's vote a lot in addition to vote-splitting with Javits.

If Cuomo loses the Dem nomination but is nominated for Working Families and/or Women's Equality Party (which is apparently stacked with Cuomo's people), do you think he'd win the general?

Cuomo has done everything in his power to destroy the Working Families Party, so I don't understand why would they throw him a lifeline.

If Nixon loses but gets the Working Families line in the general, things can get interesting

The Working Families Party is just an apparatus for union leaders and, while not always cozy with Cuomo, are definitely suspicious of outsider activist candidates, especially wealthy actresses (Teachout, with more union and other institutional left-wing political connections, had slightly more credibility with them and still failed to get the nomination). They might even endorse Cuomo in the highly unlikely circumstance where he loses the Democratic primary.

[TheRocketRaccoon]

https://poll.qu.edu/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2531

Cuomo +36 in NYC

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

https://poll.qu.edu/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2531

Cuomo +36 in NYC

I want to see an upstate New York poll. I feel like that'll be Nixon's strongest region.

[DemocraticKing]

https://poll.qu.edu/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2531

Cuomo +36 in NYC

I want to see an upstate New York poll. I feel like that'll be Nixon's strongest region.

She'll win upstate, aside from cities. It will make zero difference, and she will still get 38%

[Dr. MB]

https://poll.qu.edu/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2531

Cuomo +36 in NYC

I want to see an upstate New York poll. I feel like that'll be Nixon's strongest region.

She'll win upstate, aside from cities. It will make zero difference, and she will still get 38%

Here's the 2014 primary map. I think Nixon would win all orange counties and most of the light blue counties upstate, but NYC will still go strongly for Cuomo, unfortunately.

[MAINEiac4434]

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/983319885521571840?s=21

[LabourJersey]

https://poll.qu.edu/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2531

Cuomo +36 in NYC

I want to see an upstate New York poll. I feel like that'll be Nixon's strongest region.

She'll win upstate, aside from cities. It will make zero difference, and she will still get 38%

Here's the 2014 primary map. I think Nixon would win all orange counties and most of the light blue counties upstate, but NYC will still go strongly for Cuomo, unfortunately.

But Nixon is heavily targeting NYC with her transportation platform (every event she goes to, she talks about how terrible the subway system is). Plus she'll have enough money for a limited ad campaign.

Her margins in the city aren't going to be enough to win a bourough or anything, but they'll be far far better than what Teachout could do. I think she'll get somewhere around 42-43%

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I say she breaks 40% Statewide and 30% in NYC, she can easily hit Cuomo on Transportation, and already is.

[kyc0705]

She just put out a video where she talks about legalizing marijuana, and she is nOT PLAYING AROUND:

http://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/984070632588627968

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Here's the 2014 primary map. I think Nixon would win all orange counties and most of the light blue counties upstate, but NYC will still go strongly for Cuomo, unfortunately.

But I think Manhattan and maybe Staten Island will go for Nixon. The main difference between her and Teachout is that the latter isn't from NYC.

[Webnicz]

She just put out a video where she talks about legalizing marijuana, and she is nOT PLAYING AROUND:

http://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/984070632588627968

Pretty shocking a single interview on the Wendy Williams show gave her a lot of attention on this issue.

Wendy Williams is the new Wolf Blitzer

Heres the interview, I recommend you watch the whole thing its pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlmzWm0y8c&t=693s

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I don't understand why some people don't run for lieutenant governor if they live in states with separate primaries. Cynthia Nixon and Julián Castro are good examples, as they'd have a very realistic chance of becoming their respective governor's deputy.

[kyc0705]

I don't understand why some people don't run for lieutenant governor if they live in states with separate primaries. Cynthia Nixon and Julián Castro are good examples, as they'd have a very realistic chance of becoming their respective governor's deputy.

And then they could start methodically plotting the governor's downfall and assume power in a vicious, underground coup. Honestly, that sounds way more fun than just running for the top spot.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I don't understand why some people don't run for lieutenant governor if they live in states with separate primaries. Cynthia Nixon and Julián Castro are good examples, as they'd have a very realistic chance of becoming their respective governor's deputy.

And then they could start methodically plotting the governor's downfall and assume power in a vicious, underground coup. Honestly, that sounds way more fun than just running for the top spot.

 

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/984871473301999616

[Young Conservative]

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/984871473301999616

The machine is hacking away....people will hear the noise though.

[MAINEiac4434]

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/984871473301999616

Andrew Cuomo is the woooorst.

And these spineless union bosses need to go.

[CatoMinor]

I will always applaud Cuomo's God given talent to troll the True Leftists. At this point he has to be to NY Dems what TX House Speaker Joe Straus was to the teabaggers in TX.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I will always applaud Cuomo's God given talent to troll the True Leftists. At this point he has to be to NY Dems what TX House Speaker Joe Straus was to the teabaggers in TX.

Cuomo haters aren't True Leftists. Most voted for Hillary Clinton and hate Jill Stein.