Wasn’t it less than poll projections? Propaganda blah blah blah but it’s still kind of incredible that 41% looked at Andrew Cuomo and said “that’s my guy”
I haven’t been paying attention at all so idk. Kinda surprised the polls were higher, I figured they would be fixed or something.
And yeah its pretty fucking shocking that considering how much of a piece of shit Cuomo is that people would vote for him. Wonder if he got a lot of Republican votes and that bolstered his numbers? Tho I know libs aren’t absolved of being total idiots
Definitely. My god the Al Jazeera instagram has been posting quick interviews with people who voted for Cuomo and it’s literally just name recognition and/or “I dont like socialism I like capitalism”
Wonder if he got a lot of Republican votes and that bolstered his numbers?
This has to be part of the story, at least. Bill de Blasio won 73.15% of the vote in his first election, with the Republican candidate taking 24.31%. Curtis Sliwa only won 7.1% of the vote (as of this comment, with 91% reporting), so a sizeable chunk of Cuomo’s 41.6% must be Republican voters unless huge numbers of them stayed home. I assume will get some more detailed data on this in the coming days.
Wasn’t it less than poll projections? Propaganda blah blah blah but it’s still kind of incredible that 41% looked at Andrew Cuomo and said “that’s my guy”
I haven’t been paying attention at all so idk. Kinda surprised the polls were higher, I figured they would be fixed or something.
And yeah its pretty fucking shocking that considering how much of a piece of shit Cuomo is that people would vote for him. Wonder if he got a lot of Republican votes and that bolstered his numbers? Tho I know libs aren’t absolved of being total idiots
Name recognition probably helped too. He was governor for a long time and a large number of people just aren’t tapped into politics.
Definitely. My god the Al Jazeera instagram has been posting quick interviews with people who voted for Cuomo and it’s literally just name recognition and/or “I dont like socialism I like capitalism”
This has to be part of the story, at least. Bill de Blasio won 73.15% of the vote in his first election, with the Republican candidate taking 24.31%. Curtis Sliwa only won 7.1% of the vote (as of this comment, with 91% reporting), so a sizeable chunk of Cuomo’s 41.6% must be Republican voters unless huge numbers of them stayed home. I assume will get some more detailed data on this in the coming days.