New Yorkers Get the Government They Don’t Vote For
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New Yorkers Get the Government They Don’t Vote For
Zohran Mamdani speaks during a watch party for his primary election, which includes his bid to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor in the upcoming November 2025 election, in New York City, June 25, 2025. (David 'Dee' Delgado/Reuters)
July 1, 2025 11:09 PM
As I detailed four years ago, New York City’s mayoral elections — which were extremely high-turnout affairs in 1989 and 1993 when Rudy Giuliani was making the case for fundamental change in how the city was governed and policed — have fallen off the cliff over the years. This year’s Democratic primary, while slightly better-attended than in recent years, nominated Zohran Mamdani with an electorate that included a startlingly small share of New Yorkers in general and registered New York City Democrats in particular. Fewer people voted in this primary than in the Democrats’ primary in 1989, when David Dinkins squared off against Ed Koch — and even with ranked-choice voting adding nearly 100,000 votes to his tally from people who didn’t pick him as their first choice, Mamdani got fewer votes than Dinkins did that year.
To put Mamdani’s 446,163 first-place votes and 545,334 ranked votes in context (compared with Andrew Cuomo’s receiving 374,818 first-place votes and 428,530 ranked votes and Brad Lander’s receiving 115,105 first-place votes): New York City has approximately 8,258,000 residents. The city’s population peaked at 8,804,190 residents in the 2020 census (pre-Covid), but it has been remarkably stable on the whole since hitting 7,454,995 in the 1940 census. In 1990, the year after Dinkins was elected, the census found 7,322,564 people in New York. According to the most recently available data, there are 5,126,009 registered voters in the city, of whom 3,343,648 are registered Democrats. That means that Mamdani was the first choice of 8.7 percent of registered voters in New York, and the ranked choice of 10.6 percent; he was the first choice of 13.3 percent of registered Democrats, and the ranked choice of 16.3 percent.
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After supporting Israel for a long time, they seem to have strongly gone the other way.
This does not bode well for the party of hate and misinformation. The honorable Democrat party of old has been pushed aside to be replaced by some pretty despicable people
It's Official: Democrats Are Now an Anti-Israel Party
Not just vote to give funding for illegals on Medicaid, they voted against doubling the funding for rural hospitals and clinics, directly putting Americans lives at risk, unamerican pieces of crap.
Can anyone on NT remember the last time a MAGA made a positive suggestion about... anything? They control all the levers of power, but they have no ideas. So they just attack, attack, attack.
It's boring.
Because no taxes on tips or overtime isn't positive
Because sealing the border isn't positive.
Because deporting criminals isn't positive
Because bringing back the war fighters that senile uncle Joe let go because of his bullshit Vaccine policies isn't positive.
Because holding Universities responsible for being Nazi strongholds isn't positive.
Your comment reeks of ignorance.
Are tips and overtime income? Then shouldn't they be taxed as income?
Border has never been sealed, currently is not sealed, and never will be sealed.
Who cares about the Constitutional requirement of due process while you're doing it?
Don't even know what the fuck you are trying to say. You need to clarify your talking points. Or leave them in the original Russian/Chinese so I can translate them myself.
I thought they were antifa strongholds. Or was that last year's talking points. And in the process force private universities to teach only state approved courses?
Your response reeks of foreign propaganda.
So going line by line through your comment and showing you where each is wrong is considered "no value"????? Pretty sure Perrie will reverse this one.
To clarify; the numbers of service members who used the Covid vaccine excuse to deliberately refuse standard legal medical orders is reported in wildly fantastic numbers in varying sources. It was widely viewed by the services as an easy way for the "disgruntled" to end their military service without a dishonorable discharge.
Eventually, the Biden Administration offered all of them the chance to reenlist for two years, a one year offer that began in February 2023 after the Pentagon dropped the Covid vaccine requirement in January 2023.
In comes the Trump Administration with a first week EO to reopen the "cases" and offer those who did not respond in 2023 or 2024 an opportunity to reenlist at the same rank, with back pay...
Trump's offer is good from 02/07/2025 until 02/06/2026.
Pentagon moves to take back troops booted for refusing COVID vaccine
COVID vaccines back then were required, so basically they refused direct orders. Is that who you want in your military? Soldiers who will refuse a direct order because of a conspiracy theory?
Absolutely 100% correct.
Absolutely not.
Then again, Biden was the CoC, as is Trump now, and this grievance would have to be at the bottom of whatever list of wrongs either might have been accused of.
Just consider these to be more questionable "pardons".
You have to wonder why Trump doesn't just issue a blanket pardon for all federal offenses to anyone that voted for him. It's what he wants, so he should just get it over with.
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When was the last time a MAGA did anything other than mirror the words of progressives?