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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 10, 2025

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New York City is rather large for a "municipality", if you weren't aware. It has twice as many people as the adjacent state of Connecticut (8.5 million vs. 3.7 million), and nine-tenths as many people as the adjacent state of New Jersey (9.5 million). And it contains Wall Street. It's practically as important as a state.

Maybe so, although state elections also aren't relevant to people outside the state. I couldn't care less who is the governor of NY, nor the mayor of NYC, because it doesn't affect my life one iota.

I lived there, I'm aware. But a very large municipality still isn't a state, and a very large mayor isn't a governor.

And more to the point, the election is weird, you have a corrupt incumbent, a joke goofball Republican, and a weirdo carpetbagger independent all running. Mamdani's primary win, and ultimate general election win, aren't indicators of anything in a place with a normal field of candidates. It's relevant that it's a municipal election in that you rarely see state level elections that odd and shambolic.

aren't indicators of anything in a place with a normal field of candidates

But it's an indicator New York is no longer normal. And it will be inevitably seen by Democratic leadership as a sign that non-normal candidates can win elections, and it's OK to nominate more of them. First we take Manhattan, then...

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