NYC Mayor/2021 Megathread

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Maybe it's because I don't live in NYC, but I don't see a problem here? What's wrong with this video?

I personally don't care, but that's a really high class bodega to the point where you can barely call it one. Also he follows it up with a "haha I love New York" tweet which is a bit cringeworthy. Then there's how he grabs all the bananas awkwardly.

Nobody is going to care about this tweet though. This is just pure meaningless twitter outrage. But Yang has a problem about being seen as out of touch with the city.

It’s silly but it feeds into a negative image people already had of him.

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Apparently Yang said some weird sh**t at a gay Democratic club where he sounded like a high school girl who’s really into her GBF. Who care but it’s in the New York Times.

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Apparently Yang said some weird sh**t at a gay Democratic club where he sounded like a high school girl who’s really into her GBF. Who care but it’s in the New York Times.

This is actually a very bad thing to happen to him, because he probably had the gay vote before this (he's a celebrity) and this will def lose that. Not a huge chunk of the electorate, and we aren't talking about most LGBTQS who lean far left and probably wouldn't vote for him anyway, but he's done for in chelsea and hells kitchen 

What are you talking about. The gays weren’t going to vote for him anyway and there aren’t many of them, but he also had their vote and this is devastating?

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The more I see of Yang the more I get the feeling that he’s fundamentally not taking this seriously. I don’t think he’s an unserious person, but I’ve seen no evidence that he’ll be a serious mayor.

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The more I see of Yang the more I get the feeling that he’s fundamentally not taking this seriously. I don’t think he’s an unserious person, but I’ve seen no evidence that he’ll be a serious mayor.

Honestly, i agree with you. If i still lived in NYC, I'd prob vote for Stringer as Yang is turning into a clown tier candidate

The only one who I think is actually worse than Yang is Adams, but it doesn’t really seem like he’s expanding his base and forging alliances like Yang or the more progressive candidates are.

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https://twitter.com/HenryRosoff/status/1394400582559932417?s=20

https://twitter.com/HenryRosoff/status/1394412662415667202?s=20

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I mean, we could talk about Lady Gaga’s chances as well, why not?

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Loving the anti-Adams backlash.

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Wonder what’s gonna come out about Garcia or Wiley next.

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How bad of a candidate do you have to be for your volunteers, people who support you so much they go out of their way to help you for free go on strike???

And that's why supporting Dianne at this point is bad. Quite bad.

Freaking Paperboy Love Prince is honestly my 3rd choice right now just for how bad everyone else is

I don’t know if I can think of five major candidates I like at this point. I’d likely put Prince at #1 if I were a voter.

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I’m noticing a last minute movement towards Wiley, but I doubt it’s enough

My ballot will be as follows, and this is fairly set

1. Wiley
2. Garcia
3. Donovan
4. Yang

Curious - why Donovan?

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There’s always Paperboy Prince.

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Warren endorses Wiley.

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1402057766609592322

Could maybe peel away some Garcia voters if publicized? I feel like there’s decent overlap between Warren 2020 supporters and Garcia 2021 supporters, at least among people I know. Anecdotal though.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Wiley and Garcia’s bases Venn diagram are about a circle.

Are they? my impression is that Garcia voters are more moderate than Wiley's.

It’s the #plans

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Said Marist poll's RCV ballot.

I personally think the best opportunity here for An Adams loss is from Wiley. Mainly because I have a harder time seeing there being Garcia -> Adams transfers when compared to the large overlap in Garcia -> Wiley. Wiley on the other hand has some demographic support that would flow to Adams, despite their ideological differences.

Dare I use the power of the internet to find out who Paperboy Love Prince is?

Paperboy Prince is a queer community organizer. As far as I can tell they have big Marianne Williamson vibes, but they actually contribute to their community.

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Said Marist poll's RCV ballot.

I personally think the best opportunity here for An Adams loss is from Wiley. Mainly because I have a harder time seeing there being Garcia -> Adams transfers when compared to the large overlap in Garcia -> Wiley. Wiley on the other hand has some demographic support that would flow to Adams, despite their ideological differences.

Dare I use the power of the internet to find out who Paperboy Love Prince is?

Paperboy Prince is a queer community organizer. As far as I can tell they have big Marianne Williamson vibes, but they actually contribute to their community.

Well Williamson did run food programs and hospices in the 80s.

Yet another reason to love her.

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Jesus. This guy is the opposite of mayor material.

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I wonder if a Garcia-Yang cross-endorsement failure would push future candidates to cross-endorse less or earlier.

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Kathryn Garcia is the only candidate I like and I will be rooting hard for her.

Somehow, you and I ended up on the same side in a primary election. Hell has truly frozen over.

The absolute state of the race that Garcia is becoming the candidate of the left.

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Democrats will need to pivot hard, nationally, to be tough on crime after this. Even their base voters in the Bronx are sick of the "defund" nonsense. Electoral disaster in 2022 awaits otherwise.

Buffalo and Rochester Mayoral primary results suggest otherwise. Two powerhouse NY Dem. Party Mayors, very "tough on crime" and business-friendly, just collapsed to Democratic Socialist candidates.

The need for Biden Democrats is a purple state issue - not a blue state issue. Stop fearing the paper tiger.

I wish this were the case but Malik Evans was not a DSA candidate. He did have the WFP’s endorsement but most of his support as far as I can tell came from not being Lovely Warren.

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How is one state, and one city in particular, so routinely incapable of running elections

RCV might be a lot more popular soon if the worst place at counting votes in the world weren’t doing it.

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Wait... there still no final result? LOL! NY is a banana republic when it comes to holding election.

The final (or hopefully almost-final) result is expected to be announced today. The only votes that won’t be included in today’s total are the absentee ballots with curing issues, of which we don’t know how many there will be or for whom.

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Ranked choice is looking like a failure for NYC....

I really did not understand it at all.....

Does it work well in Maine?

How is it a failure? You know normal elections can have a lot of absentee ballots too, right?

(And yes, it does work well in Maine.)

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Looking at just the absentee votes it is true that Garcia did better than her election day vote but it also seems true that she got a smaller share of Yang and then Wiley second preference votes than election day votes which mostly canceled out most of her relative edge in absentee votes.

Looks like the Yang endorsement really sealed the deal for her getting as far as she did.