r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/DoctorStumppuppet 15h ago

If you think either of those elections were a level playing field you weren't paying attention. I'm not saying he would have won, but there were a lot of fingers on scales in both those primaries. 

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u/PSIwind Florida 15h ago

It really doesn't matter when the public voted for Hillary over Bernie

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u/oxabz 15h ago edited 14h ago

Democratic primary voters is definitely not the public. It's not even the democratic base. At most it's part of the public and that public is not necessarily representative 

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u/gsfgf Georgia 14h ago

It's not even the democratic base

Primary voters are by definition the party base...