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
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