No matter my opinion on the guy, special congrats to the folks who worked super hard for his campaign that are on here. You obviously made a big difference and this is your win too! Pop a bottle of champagne (or sparkling apple cider) to celebrate your effort pizza-dance (he is a slice of New York style pizza)

[–] CementCityRefugee@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't it less than poll projections? Propaganda blah blah blah but it's still kind of incredible that 41% looked at Andrew Cuomo and said "that's my guy"

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't been paying attention at all so idk. Kinda surprised the polls were higher, I figured they would be fixed or something.

And yeah its pretty fucking shocking that considering how much of a piece of shit Cuomo is that people would vote for him. Wonder if he got a lot of Republican votes and that bolstered his numbers? Tho I know libs aren't absolved of being total idiots

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Wonder if he got a lot of Republican votes and that bolstered his numbers?

This has to be part of the story, at least. Bill de Blasio won 73.15% of the vote in his first election, with the Republican candidate taking 24.31%. Curtis Sliwa only won 7.1% of the vote (as of this comment, with 91% reporting), so a sizeable chunk of Cuomo's 41.6% must be Republican voters unless huge numbers of them stayed home. I assume will get some more detailed data on this in the coming days.