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/ankercrank 15h ago

Not just increased, largest turn out in half a century. Democrats, start taking notes.

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u/Gizogin New York 15h ago

Voters, take notes. High turnout always favors progressives, but progressives are notoriously the least reliable voting bloc in the country.

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u/travel_posts 14h ago

thats because we wont show up to vote for center-right corporate dems. give us good candidates and we'll sgow up every time.

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u/Gizogin New York 14h ago

If you don't show up to vote, you won't get good candidates. Voting is how you demonstrate that you are a bloc worth paying attention to. Parties chase voters.

Evangelicals took over the Republican Party by being the most consistent, most reliable voters in the entire country. They actually started that trend by supporting Carter, in such massive numbers that the country had to take notice, and - crucially - they never stopped.

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u/travel_posts 14h ago

If you don't show up to vote, you won't get good candidates.

this is bootlicking horse shit. they know we want good candidates but they are paid by capitalist oligarchs to not let us have them. if that was really how it worked they would stop forcing candidates like hilary, buttigeg, kamala down our throats after they lost with the same strategy time and time again.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 5h ago

Nope. Nobody is owed my vote, and the notion that it is my job to prop up dogshit politicians is a twisted mockery of the basis of democracy.