I did that, Jack! Me!

and he's polling better with women lmao

You’re really going to lock up a 68 years young italianx man just like that? It’s part of his culture

I genuinely do not understand the bonus of “Name recognition” in American politics

Cuomo is ShitFlakes.

The average American reads at below a sixth grade level and Americans aren't exactly known for being readers. Americans tend to vote in a similar way to how they buy cereal. Imagine ShitFlakes has a heavy ad buy in Joe Blow's region around NYC. At the supermarket Joe gets to the cereal aisle and his hand reaches for ShitFlakes. He only sort of realizes he's about to put that overpriced garbage into his cart because of very large number of times he's seen it on his screens.

Joe is middle aged, lived in NYC his whole life, and he loves CNN. He's literally heard or seen the name Cuomo more than 10,000 times because it's not only the surname of the ShitFlakes governor but also Mario Cuomo and Chris Cuomo too.

It is stupid but unfortunately here a lot of people will remember Cuomo shitting on Trump during Covid and not that he killed old people or is a serial harasser.

Part of the problem is that people who don't like him are ranking him at all, even last. You don't have to rank a candidate for NY mayor if you don't want them as mayor.

I forgot to mention - Cuomo will have some support from notable shit stain dems because they hate even the idea of a socialist getting close to power - https://hexbear.net/post/5213882

American elections are generally run on PR and marketing. That's what they use the money for, to buy ads and shit, and they put a lot of emphasis on optics.

The political climbers who do the PR work jump at the chance for a candidate that already has "name recognition" because they don't need to spend PR and marketing budget on making peolle aware of the candidate's existence or what they are about. With Cuomo they already have the basics: white guy Democrat that has already been governor. They can now spend their big budget on fixing his many PR problems, which is probably correctly perceived as less difficult than making voters aware of a new candidate.

In our lifetime we will see many socialist mayors, comrade

This poll was pre-AOC endorsement and debate so that could be some of it. Zohran is pulling these numbers with only 72% name recognition compared to Cuomo’s 97%, so that could also be a part of it

It’s eternal 2016.

The black populations that vote are highly entrenched in the Democratic patronage machine. They are machine democrats. They will always vote establishment. Did you not learn this in 2016 and 2020 when Bernie got crushed in the south for this reason?

How is Cuomo pulling so strongly in the African American demographic?

Idfk but I'm guessing there's a generational gap and it's older people who don't know shit supporting him

There's data showing black Democrats self-identifying as moderate much more than white or Hispanic democrats, so a break for Cuomo makes sense on an ideological level

He said he believes Israel has a right to exist and defend itself, but at least he won’t visit Israel seven times and suck the wailing wall off like the other candidates I guess

He really shouldn’t have caved and just responded with “I don’t believe the mayor of a city should be taking geopolitical diplomatic actions outside of the country” or something and reframed the issue

beats the sex pest, but I'm not holding my breath

NYC Seattle Chicago Portland LA

Have all been shown to be fertile for left of liberal political victories. My understanding is that the Nevada DNC also has progressive leadership, so waiting to see if they can push for some wins on their end now that they have some power

I think you are thinking of socdems for the phrase. DSA seem to be a bit more left than that

Unironically though