TeknOShEeP
4d ago
Is there coherent opposition? You have Silwa, who is very explicitly using this as an excuse to route campaign financing bucks to his friends and family (so technically coherent I guess?) but is putting in the same amount of effort as his chance of winning. Then you have Cuomo who manages to be toxic on both sides of the aisle and is obviously grabbing at any chance at ressurecting his career. Cuomo has some organized money behind him, but it doesnt seem to be the usual influence-dealing you would expect with a standard campaign, just knee-jerk desperation gambles from wealthy boomers not already planning on fleeing the city.
Prediction markets have this as a foregone conclusion, with Mamdani approaching 95% victory chance. I would believe them.
TeknOShEeP
5d ago
That's because the actual strategic play on the right is not to oppose Mamdani, its to amplify him. If deep blue NYC wants to vote in a champagne socialist who larps at third-world credentialism, more power to them. They'll just be over in the corner eating popcorn and taking notes.
As a result, the anti-Mamdani coalition is a slapdash contraption hobbled together by people who mostly despise each other and are united only in their disbelief that NYC voters could possibly be this dumb, financed by a couple of boomer billionaires who are not particularly relevant. Thus the reason you dont see any coherent opposition is because it doesnt exist. Mamdani will be the next mayor of NYC, and his supporters will get what they voted for, good and hard.
Lol, very true! It's pretty much the same reaction.
Though the subjects are not the same, and that difference is everything.
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