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Cuomo defeated in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary

There's a lot of weird takes among the candidates who aren't named Mamdani

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW POLL AMONG JEWISH VOTERS:<br>⬜️ Eric Adams 25%<br>⬜️ Andrew Cuomo 21%<br>🟥 Curtis Sliwa 14%<br><br>Jewish voters are behind Eric Adams!</p>&mdash; Eric Adams For Mayor (@AdamsWarRoom) <a href="
https://twitter.com/x/status/1952126355769827657
">August 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
kookbreaker said:
There's a lot of weird takes among the candidates who aren't named Mamdani

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW POLL AMONG JEWISH VOTERS:<br>⬜️ Eric Adams 25%<br>⬜️ Andrew Cuomo 21%<br>🟥 Curtis Sliwa 14%<br><br>Jewish voters are behind Eric Adams!</p>&mdash; Eric Adams For Mayor (@AdamsWarRoom) <a href="
https://twitter.com/x/status/1952126355769827657
">August 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Why is he highlighting the Republican? At a glance, it looks like Sliwa is the highest.
 
kookbreaker said:
There's a lot of weird takes among the candidates who aren't named Mamdani

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW POLL AMONG JEWISH VOTERS:<br>⬜️ Eric Adams 25%<br>⬜️ Andrew Cuomo 21%<br>🟥 Curtis Sliwa 14%<br><br>Jewish voters are behind Eric Adams!</p>&mdash; Eric Adams For Mayor (@AdamsWarRoom) <a href="
https://twitter.com/x/status/1952126355769827657
">August 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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So what you're saying Mr Adams is that about 40% of New York's jews are planning on voting for Zohran Mamdani?
 
Yes, Adams IS saying that, though not in so many words!

Mamdani is undoubtedly leading the field among Jewish voters. Among Reform Jews and Jewish voters 45-or-younger, he's polling over 50%, leading Eric Adams by a margin of better than 6 to 1. The latest Zenith Research and Public Progress poll:

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Many media outlets have reported on Mamdani polling well with Jewish New Yorkers, including the one I'm quoting below by NewsNation:
Mamdani’s success has marked a shift in the views of many American Jewish voters, especially young voters, who are alarmed by Israel’s conduct in the war and increasingly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I think this campaign has really shown us something we have known for a while,” Ben Sadoff, a Jewish New Yorker who campaigned for Mamdani, told The New York Times. “There are a million Jewish New Yorkers who have wide-ranging opinions on all kinds of issues.” NewsNation article link
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I think for many Jewish voters, supporting Mamdani is an effort to distance and absolve themselves from what Israel is doing in Gaza.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
I think for many Jewish voters, supporting Mamdani is an effort to distance and absolve themselves from what Israel is doing in Gaza.
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Or maybe they don't see themselves as having any connections to Israel, because they're Americans? Not everybody who's Jewish cares about a foreign country and considers their politics in relation to it.

The set of people obsessed with Israel doesn't include every Jewish person on the planet.
 
New York is the largest Jewish population city in the World, with a million+, more than Jerusalem.
It's politics are always connected to Israel, and most Mayors make Israel their first visit.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Or maybe they don't see themselves as having any connections to Israel, because they're Americans? Not everybody who's Jewish cares about a foreign country and considers their politics in relation to it.

The set of people obsessed with Israel doesn't include every Jewish person on the planet.
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Nice to know that you consider concern over the Jewish state having suffered a massive and savage terrorist attack as "obsession."
 
The Great Zaganza said:
New York is the largest Jewish population city in the World, with a million+, more than Jerusalem.
It's politics are always connected to Israel, and most Mayors make Israel their first visit.
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New York is an American city, in America, with American citizens as its voters. Just because you believe all Jews must be loyal to Israel doesn't mean all Jews do.

The ones in the US are the ones who didn't go there, after all.
 
TragicMonkey said:
New York is an American city, in America, with American citizens as its voters. Just because you believe all Jews must be loyal to Israel doesn't mean all Jews do.

The ones in the US are the ones who didn't go there, after all.
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I find that the most insanely patriotic people are those who have chosen to leave (or not to live) in the country they're wildly patriotic about. This is a personal observation and therefore possibly complete bollocks.
 
jt512 said:
Yeah. It never is.
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It really isn't. I'm commenting on the mistaken assumption that a New York city mayoral election's Jewish voters must necessarily choose their candidate based on that candidate's real or perceived attitude toward a foreign nation. Which attitude, by the way, would not necessarily be about one particular event in a series of events.
 
TragicMonkey said:
It really isn't. I'm commenting on the mistaken assumption that a New York city mayoral election's Jewish voters must necessarily choose their candidate based on that candidate's real or perceived attitude toward a foreign nation. Which attitude, by the way, would not necessarily be about one particular event in a series of events.
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I know what you wrote, and you characterized it as obsession.
 
3point14 said:
If it's 'never', then I would suggest the problem is comprehension, not composition.

(Similar in logic to the oft quoted "If you meet one arsehole a day...)
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And I would suggest you learn to detect obvious sarcasm.
 
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