[Andy McDandy]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Zorhan Mamdani yet. Hell of an achievement, and he's going to have all the shit everywhere thrown at him. But still, well done.

[Killer Whale]

People starting to realise exactly which faces the leopards were going be eating all along?

[The Weeping Angel]

Winning as a Democrat in New York City isn't that great of an achievement, especially when you're opponents are disgraced ex-governor, disgraced current mayor, and a man wearing a red beret.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Democrats won everything, as far as I can see. Very good results in New Jersey, which has trended more Republican fairly recently. Great result in the California referendum too.

My guess is that lots of the movement against Democrats has been related to very visible homelessness and drug use in some cities, combined with relatively high taxes by US standards. The electorate naturally wonder what they're paying those taxes for. I don't know if Mamdani can do any better than the more establishment Dems on these things. He wants to get housing built, which is an improvement on some of the people who hold sway in cities.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Winning as a Democrat in New York City isn't that great of an achievement, especially when you're opponents are disgraced ex-governor, disgraced current mayor, and a man wearing a red beret.

Agree, the achievement was in coming from nowhere within the Democratic Party to do it Good luck to him, he put up with far worse shit even than Sadiq Khan.

We're going to get a lot of nonsense about how he's some sort of lesson for not just Democrats everywhere, but for Rachel Reeves too. Abigail Spanberger, by contrast, won't be any sort of lesson for anybody.

[The Weeping Angel]

Winning as a Democrat in New York City isn't that great of an achievement, especially when you're opponents are disgraced ex-governor, disgraced current mayor, and a man wearing a red beret.

Agree, the achievement was in coming from nowhere within the Democratic Party to do it Good luck to him, he put up with far worse shit even than Sadiq Khan.

We're going to get a lot of nonsense about how he's some sort of lesson for not just Democrats everywhere, but for Rachel Reeves too. Abigail Spanberger, by contrast, won't be any sort of lesson for anybody.

Fair enough I don't hate Mamdani, and I think he has good ideas around housing, it's just I find a lot of the coverage grating especially here's what you can learn from Mamdani.

[Tubby Isaacs]

People starting to realise exactly which faces the leopards were going be eating all along?

US voters generally aren't very swingy, but there are very hopeful signs of that. And signs that polls may be underestimating Democrats- some of the generic polling is much closer than you might expect.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Having said that, Hispanic voters seem to have swung back to the Democrats. That may cause some problems for the Republican gerrymander in Texas, which may have overestimated their likely Hispanic vote share. Depends how greedy they've been. If they've set the map with lots of seats they expected to win by 5 points, then a very bad year could see the Democrats win those seats.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Black voters too seem to have gone back to Democrats. Trump got something like 24% of Black men. The candidate in Virginia got 12%, the candidate in New Jersey got 7%. Trump's performance may have been a personal thing. Black women hated Trump, and the Republicans have done even worse with them this time,

With anything like these numbers, the Republicans aren't sweeping the Mid West next time.

[Youngian]

Does Trump know he's the kiss of death when he endorsed Adams and then Cuomo?
Possibly yes as he's not going to stop going on about Mamdani on the stump. Dems are controlled by Muslim terrorists, commies and big city clever dicks.
Mamdani is slick, though and he will have his retorts ready.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Actual (former) member of the US Senate. Lucky that Trump is so staunchly committed to free markets.

[mattomac]

Anything to the left of Bill Clinton is a communist in these fuckwit eyes.

[Youngian]

Lucky that Trump is so staunchly committed to free markets.

Don't worry Don, Zohran will have your back

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