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I know it’s fashionable in certain circles to sneer or cheer that a Muslim Communist is the Dem nominee for Mayor of New York City, but if you remember 9/11 or the BLM riots, you know that what happens in big cities doesn’t stay in them.
And no, this is not because New Yorkers are the worst people on earth. As I showed, Mamdani only won the votes of between 5% and 7% of New Yorkers. The primary had less than 30% turnout for Dems. Mamdani’s base turned out, but it also turned out that no one was enthusiastic about voting for Cuomo. And who can blame them.
Despite that, Cuomo is staying in. Mayor Eric Adams is still running. As is Curtis Sliwa on the Republican line. Between them they’ll elect Mamdani.
The polling is pretty clear.
46% of New Yorkers would never vote for Mamdani, but 51% would never vote for Adams and 39% would never vote for Cuomo.
Mamdani polls at 41%, Cuomo at 26%, Eric Adams at 16% and Sliwa at 9%.
A single candidate people could credibly vote for might beat Mamdani, but there’s no such candidate. Cuomo is a loathesome creature whom most people hate. Eric Adams isn’t likely to get much beyond the black and some Jewish votes. And Sliwa will get whatever is left of the conservative vote.
Now as we saw with previous polling, none of this matters. Turnout does. Mamdani’s leftist and Muslim base will turn out full bore. Will Cuomo and Adams voters? We already know the answer.
Yes, it’s easy to blame anyone willing to vote for Mamdani (and for that matter anyone staying home), but look at it from an apolitical standpoint (and most people are apolitical), the political establishment failed them, Cuomo and Adams are discredited candidates representing the past, while Mamdani is promising change. And some people will vote for change just to send a message to the establishment.
In this case that’s stupid and suicidal, but running against Mamdani is not enough. I called it “dead rat politics”. You can’t just run for office by pointing at your opponent and shouting he’s terrible. Even if it’s true. Nor can you ask voters to eat a dead rat because the alternative is worse.
Even if Adams and Cuomo work out some sort of deal (and that’s unlikely because neither care about anything beyond themselves), will voters turn out insufficient numbers to beat out the motivated Mamdani base?
New York’s establishment political system is falling to the far left because it locked out Republicans and anyone unwilling to reject radical leftist politics and now the far left is pushing even farther and it can’t offer an alternative to them.
Very interesting.
Sliwa is possibly the best candidate.
Wall off New Dork Shitty like in that movie “Escape From New York.”
Yep. Because if it was in a movie if must be achievable in real life. Maybe ET can phone home.
As for “New Dork Shitty,” 20 minutes in the timeout chair for you and no recess today.
You’re another I see this fine Monday Morning 7-7-2025 gets distracted and goes off topic – A city and nation is at stake and you take pot shots at one of the most illustrious commentors of FP. Matter of fact mi heffy Jeffy, is nominated to at least 3 different Fellows.
Although I like your name – reminds me of a delicious Mexican soup – more meatballs please –
Why don’t you grow up for once and become a serious, thinking, adult?
What happens in NY doesn’t stay in NY. This is a war of IDEAS and walls and bullets cannot stop ideas. It would be far easier to build a Great Wall of China around every big city in America and the border than to change the ideas in people’s minds.
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy’s impotence, but the proof of philosophy’s power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state—it is only philosophy that can lead them out.” – Ayn Rand
To whom are you telling to grow up for once? Peter Pan?
You love Ayn Rand – I love the Constitution and the Bible
I work out
I have a couple tats before they were so in vogue and popular – it’s stupid senior citizens get tats on their floppy wrinkly skin – Gross to see fresh tats on floppy wrinkly skin – what now they are retired they’re going to rebel? Happy hour at 230pm and bedtime by 9.
Of course quote the first Republican President Abraham Lincoln and you got my attention:
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
Oh get a breain THX, no one on here wants to read your crap. Ayn Rand is an idiot
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
“This is a war of IDEAS and walls and bullets cannot stop ideas.”
Really? Then explain how Nazism was stopped. You’re covertly implying that war is an exercise in futility. Since when? When and where words fail, bullets succeed. It’s just a matter of killing all the right people and enough of them. It’s no more complicated than that.
There’s a time for peace and a time for war. Some things are worth going to war over. In my experience, the word “war” is an acronym for “We Are Right.” History is written by the victors.
I just hate insults to NYC especially from someone living in California……
We don’t have Newsome! And Kamala Harris! One could posit the avregae IQ of California is below the rest of the nation.
if you came to NYC, you’d be chopped liver in ten seconds. .
Cat:
I was born and raised in California and still live here. I also have a BS, MS in electrical engineering and years in R&D and systems engineering but now retired. Are you questioning my IQ?
Insinuating that the average IQ in California is below the rest of the nation is painting with a very broad brush.
Given the Marxist dimwits that run this state and the jackasses that vote for them, I understand the contempt and disdain for Californians but impugning ALL Californians is a step too far. Are you sure you want to ride that horse?
Why the Republicans can’t come up with a winner is a real mystery. They have had years to find one, to create one. Who’s it gonna be? Since we hear nothing as to who that will be, ‘New Yorkers’ will choose the guy who offers freebies and spews terrorist ideology. They will vote for the terrorist who becomes mayor to destroy New York , as Obama became president to destroy America. In fact, he comes right out and says so: he (D-Hamas) went into politics for Palestinians, not New Yorkers. Clear enough. So don’t blame the candidate if he ‘wins’. Blame the voters, who voted with prejudice and hatred, not with fear. Why vote
for ‘corrupt ineptitude for all’ when you can choose someone whose moral corruption just goes after the Jews?
No matter the statistics and percentages, this primary win is a stunning victory for the enemy in the Jihadi war against the United States.
It’s very likely the Demonrat machine has already installed this piece of trash as NYC Mayor.. I have no doubt that the destruction that will ensue because of this mindless jerk will dwarf that of the reprehensible “Mayor” David Dinkins three decades ago. During a pogrom against the Orthodox Jewish Community in Brooklyn, a young rabbinical student was stabbed to death. The election of great Rudy Giuliani followed with an incredible restoration of the city in a short period of time. Alas, the Demonrat machine has ensured there would be no more “elections” in NY State or NYC, just “installations” of the chosen political hack.to keep the destruction moving along.
Scoundrels are elected by people who don’t vote.
Staten Island should put up huge billboards of |Archie Bunker For Mayor|.
After the election, they should have |I tried to warn you| added to those billboards, with the “For Mayor” p o o r l y Xed out such that it is easily readable.
“All In The Family”, it turns out, was a liberal Hollywood SLANDER against the common sense of the GENUINE working class of NYC …..you know, the folk that Meathead claimed — falsely — to champion.
“All in the Family” What decade are you living in?
SI once voted 65%/35% to secede but the state legislature stopped them cold. It’s where many NYPD and FDNY personnel now live. As long as Democrats still run Albany, there is no hope for legal secession.
In 1969, The Republican nominee for Mayor was SI State Senator John Marchi. The Democratic candidate was social conservative Mario Procaccino. They split the law and order vote, allowing incumbent John Lindsay to get reelected.
Total John Lindsay 1,012,633 42.35%
Total Mario Procaccino 831,772 34.79%
Total John J. Marchi 542,411 22.69%
Americans can take NYC off their Vacation list this Summer and show them there is a price to pay for their foolish moves
I would like it if President Trump endorse Curtis Sliwa.
Sliwa isn’t in it to be a career politician at his age, he is in it because he cares immensely for his city and the lawlessness it has fallen into and the utter insanity of a radical jihad myzzlym becoming mayor!
I’ve followed the Guardian Angels for decades. Admiring them.
I can see why Trump is advised not to because of the image the Guardian Angels have with some of the public.
Guardian Angels are not biker gang thugs. Their very presence on the streets and subways of NYC has deterred crime from occurring.
If Wall St alone is concerned about a radical jihad izzylam becoming mayor of NYC they need to pump money into ads on TV, radio, newspapers and billboards to get Cutis Sliwa elected and with images of what NYC would be like with this lying criminal immigrant to be mayor who was only naturalized not even 10 years ago and he thinks he knows what it’s like living in NYC to run it? No. His agenda is radical izzylam.
This jihad intifada izzylam POS running for NYC mayor was not naturalized until 2018. He lied about his race to get into Columbia U – claiming he was black African – PokoHauntUs Warren claimed she was American Indian and is still on CONgrASS?
Naturalized citizen for barely 7 years thinks he knows USA and can run the biggest city in USA NYC?
Sanity must return to NYC or else.
“I called it “dead rat politics”.
Daniel: It’s sounds like you’ve spent some time in California. Here in California, we get dead rats or “faux republicans” running for local and state offices all the time and they win more often than not!!
If that Marxist clown Mamdani wins, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to me at all. As I say all the time, people deserve what they vote for. By the same reckoning, people who don’t vote deserve what they didn’t vote for.
Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. New Yorkers have always toyed with socialism now they will not only get that but communism good and hard. This will be a disaster but this is what they want. Final nail in the destruction of a once great city and one more nail in the coffin of western civilization.