Other data of note:
Mamdani continues to go beastmode with young people, putting up regime numbers with a 73% vote share of the under 29 demographic, and a still commanding 62% of voters between the ages of 30 and 44
Amongst all candidates, a plurality of voters believe Mamdani has best addressed the Israel-Palestinian conflict
ts so so exciting, i cant shake the feeling that amerikkka is shifting towards leftism way faster than i could have hoped for
it’s easy to doomer and there’s plenty to be pessimistic about but it’s hard to overstate how crazy polling like this is just on its face if you can remember what it was like in the us back when history had ended, arguing with a baker’s dozen members and associates (two of whom were probably cops of slightly differing jurisdiction) of some ‘revolutionary’ book club on a thursday night in a laundromat basement
In a weird way I’m almost more encouraged by the 26% of polled voters saying having a socialist mayor is a neutral/neither good nor bad outcome. It shows the potential for people getting on board with socialist policies even they don’t actively identify with it.
yeah that’s a big part of it for me, the anti socialist response drilled into people from birth here creates a pavlovian response to the word and the way that’s losing some strength anywhere is just nice to see