Zohran Mamdani most popular with foreign-born New Yorkers but Cuomo favorite with homegrown voters: poll
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Via: vic-eldred • last year • 35 commentsBy: Matthew Fischetti (New York Post)
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Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani has a commanding lead with foreign-born New Yorkers, while Big Apple residents who are American-born are more likely to vote for former Gov. Cuomo, according to a new poll.
The Patriot Polling survey found that Mamdani has a whopping 62% of the foreign-born vote, while Cuomo nets 24% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa has a paltry 12%.
Cuomo, who is running as an independent, has a healthy lead among American-born New Yorkers, securing 40% compared to Mamdani's 32% and Sliwa's 25%.
The results still show Mamdani at the top of the pack with the general voting population, with the Democratic Socialist nabbing 43% of the overall vote and Cuomo trailing behind by 9%. Sliwa sits at a distant third with 19% of the vote.
The poll also found that Mamdani suffers a "serious deficit" with Catholic and Jewish voters but performs strongest with Muslims, Hindus and atheists. The anti-Israel lefty only has 30% of the Jewish vote while Cuomo has 63%, according to the poll.
The poll found that Mamdani has the majority of support from Kings County voters. Cuomo and Sliwa's main backers come from Staten Island.
Patriot Polling describes itself as a non-partisan polling organization founded in 2022 by high school students.
Polling expert Nate Silver ranked the outfit among the best in the 2024 presidential election, but the shop has also caught flak for surveys, including one that found a majority of Greenland residents would be open to joining the US, while most other polls found overwhelming opposition to the idea.
The mayoral election is Nov. 4.
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It almost makes sense.
Strange-- isn't it?
The majority of foreign born citizens voting for a foreign born candidate, while the majority of native born citizens are voting for a native born candidate!
Foreign born citizens, many of whom may not be eligible to vote and are not interested in assimilating into the culture of the host nation, engaged in elections.
Strange and self-destructive.
Stranger still is believing that in a city where about half the population is foreign born immigrants are somehow strange.
New Yorkers are in general just as sensitive to and as appalled by Islamaphobia and anti Muslim and anti Arab prejudicial sentiment as they tend to be of antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and all other sorts of prejudicial racist culturalist anti immigrant claptrap. Those like Coumo who take being anti Muslim as normal and ad acceptable feeling are way out of touch here and dead wrong in their assessment of Zohran Mamdani. I expect that Mamdani will be a succssful progressive mayor, in the mold of Zohran's idol LaGuardia.
Getting past electing our first Muslim Mayor is a sign of progress to New Yorkers like electing our first Jewish, Catholic, black, woman, gay, Italian, Irish, Asian, immigrant or whatever minority would be. Racist housewives on Staten Island and cantankerous old f arts everywhere else should take note. New Yorkers are leaving you in our dust. Your prejudices and backwards thinking do not fit into and are unwelcome in the New York City of today!
Which of those “firsts” campaigned with guys who says he hates America and thinks America deserved a terrorist attack that killed thousands of Americans?
Mamdani will get twice the votes of Coumo or Sliwa. Curtis is at least liked. Coumo loathed. He is extremely unpopular here. New Yorkers don't even know or much less care who your mayor is...
Coumo's racist anti Muslim campaign backfired in his ugly face!
It isn't just my opinion. Analysts across the board agree with me.
Let me first dispense with that comparison. Although Fiorello LaGuardia did have what was then regarded as progressive leanings, he was after all a Republican. He ran as a reformer against the corruption of Tammany Hall. He did institute many civic reforms and became widely popular and was elected mayor 3 times. New York was then the port of arrival for European immigrants and those immigrants came legally and wanted to assimilate into American culture. Many of the migrants who now took an unusual journey to arrive in New York City do not share that sentiment.
New Yorkers are in general just as sensitive to and as appalled by Islamaphobia and anti Muslim and anti Arab prejudicial sentiment as they tend to be of antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and all other sorts of prejudicial racist culturalist anti immigrant claptrap.
That is pure projection.
Getting past electing our first Muslim Mayor is a sign of progress
Let us examine Mr Mamdani:
Mamdani is a self-declared Socialist. Some of the things he has said go beyond Socialism. He said that to be a Socialist one must take possession of the means of production. That is right out of the writings of Friedrich Engels. Mamdani said he wants to get rid of elite schools that are meritocratic. He said he wants to tax those who are more affluent & white more aggressively. He wants those same people to pay for transportation that will be free to others.
Normally such a candidate would be unelectable even in a traditionally liberal city such as New York, but there has been a massive demographic change in New York. Millions of middle-class citizens have left the city over the past 20 years. In the past 4 years we have had a wide-open border policy which allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to come into NYC and it is no longer just a liberal democrat city, it is now a radical democrat city. On top of all of that, this year's mayoral election is an off-year election meaning that fewer voters will come out to vote. The main contender to Mamdani is a seriously flawed candidate and the election of Mamdani is all but certain. I'm sure he'll also get the votes of those who recently graduated college and are still without a job. His statements on Hamas and Jews notwithstanding.
Your prejudices and backwards thinking do not fit into and are unwelcome in the New York City of today!
Your antisemitic prejudices and hate for traditional America may elect Mamdani, but I think he will cause New York's financial sector to flee and that will be the final nail in the coffin for NYC.
Mamdani will be the next Mayor of New York City. He is going to Gracie Mansion. Coumo goes on the trash heap of history. Zohran will end up with twice the votes of him and Sliwa. He gets mine...
You don't get a vote.
He sure will. And you deserve him.
Which means my assessment is correct and you are the one projecting your prejudices onto New Yorkers. The fact is that Coumo's anti Muslim campaign backfired, didn't play here. The racist anti immigrant anti Muslim histrionics of MAGA are just skits on Saturday Night Live. I expect Zohran will guest host.
I haven't been following this electoral race all that closely, but IIRC Mamdani has recently slightly modified some of his more "extreme" positions.
At this point it seems the odds are that he will be elected.
IMO there is only one way Cuomo could defeat him. The numbers are such that if Sliwa (the Republican candidate) dropped out then most of Sliwa's supporters would back Cuomo and Cuomo would win.
But that's unimportant because Sliwa definitely won't back out. so IMO its almost certain Mamdani will win.
I've been watching the NYC mayoral race from the beginning and according to polling Mamdani wins as many Sliwa votes as Coumo does if Sliwa exists the race. In his desperation Coumo resorted to racism and Islamaphobia. That backfired. Coumo did not give answers. Mamdani did. Zohran has convinced a winning coalition that he deserves our votes and a chance.
Coumo has nobody else to blame. He lost. He is now dead politically in NYC. It is time for progressive leadership in NYC. For hundreds of years NYC did what "they" said NYC could not. The Brooklyn Bridge, the subway system, The Empire State Building. Yankee Ingenuity is not dead. Llead, follow or get the hell out of the way of progress.
Zohran Mamdani's father was ethnically cleansed by Ugandans in 1972, along with 80k other Indians. The Brits took him in as a refugee. Americans gave him a scholarship and a professorship. And he'll never forgive us for it.
See what you end up with when you let anybody in
What you get is The Greatest City in the World! Don't like it? Stay in Bugtussle and Pixley. People and companies come here to succeed!
They did it to stay in power.
Politicians doing things to get re-elected and stay in power!
I am shocked by that-- absolutely shocked I tell you!
Replacing the population is a bit extreme, don't you think?
Like removing Palestinians from Gaza to build a luxury resort? Does it not occur to you that Muslims have as much reason to fear NY Jews (Or MAGA) as Jews have to fear NY Muslims (Or MAGA)?
Wouldn't it be great if Jerusalem was more like New York City? A city where all faiths live safely, work together and raise families?
Have you seen what Gaza now looks like. Why would anyone want to stay there?
Does it not occur to you that Muslims have as much reason to fear NY Jews (Or MAGA) as Jews have to fear NY Muslims (Or MAGA)?
No, it hasn't. Could you tell us what MAGA voters have done to Muslims that would cause Muslims to fear them?
Wouldn't it be great if Jerusalem was more like New York City? A city where all faiths live safely, work together and raise families?
I believe Jerusalem is such a city. Am I wrong?
That crapola is why Mamdani is winning!
Islamic Americans are American as you.
Maybe more...
No, Mandami is winning because the worthless takers have figured out how to vote for people who will promise to steal from the takers to support their lazy asses, the problem is the producers will leave. then you just have a third world shithole.
Yet New York City is still and will remain Financial Capitol of the World. Go Figure!
You seem to be obsessed with the idea that poor people are lazy asses who take from the good people.
The poverty level in the United States has almost never been below ten percent. That tells us that the system assures poverty.
The only people who get social services like Medicaid or SNAP are people with very low incomes, or cheats. Although cheating should be minimized or eliminated I dont lose sleep over it because there are wealthy people who cheat the financial system every day.
I'd ask you to stop whining about the social safety net but I know there is no chance of that.
That is party true George. The other element at play is the Democrats theory of "demography is destiny." There was a reason why the people around Biden opened the border.
All these people who stopped taking the subway...(for various reasons).
No wonder its always so empty!
Zohran appreciates you helping his campaign!
That is a picture of what free enterprise created in the last two centuries. Careful what you wish for.
Jussie Mamdani got caught telling a lie about his aunt having to stop riding the subway because she was insulted for wearing a hijab after 9/11. He was literally crying over it the other day.
It turns out his aunt never lived in New York and doesn't wear a hijab. But he played the victim of racism card, and that's really all that matters to democratic voters.