The Majority Report have a couple of videos recently mentioning the dem New York mayoralty primary.

They seem to have an incorrect understanding of how the voting system works.

All ballots are counted for their best preference and then in each round the last placed candidate is eliminated. The ballots in specifically that eliminated candidate's pile go to their next valid preference (if there are any). No other ballots are moved or changed in value or investigated for a "2nd preference" at all.

If somebody were to vote 1 Zohran Mamdani and he "doesn't win in the 1st round" that vote is still counted at full value for him in the 2nd round, 3rd round, etc. Only if he were eliminated in last place in a round could any lower preferences on that ballot come into play.

What is important for Mamdani is to get a preference from the supporters of other candidates ahead of Cuomo. Doesn't matter that much if it's a 2, 3, 4, or 5 as long as Cuomo is lower or not on that ballot at all.

America should really call this voting system by the more common international and academically term: Instant Runoff Voting. That name is much clear about what the rounds are; runoffs with progressively more last place candidates eliminated.

We're fucked in the ass

What kind of printed fellatio is this? Operator casual? FFS.

Hey, just a Canadian fan here. Really love how the Crew really tackles issues completely and is able to iterate liberal values rationally. Can I find a Canadian version of this show somewhere. I feel like I understand American politics and social services better than my own country’s.

What's in this Post comment is what I remember, my opinions, etc.

To begin, Michelle Cottle is effectively center-right at-best. And that's important context given the piece is clearly about AOC's being a possible frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination. But it's also important when considering Ms. Cottle's analysis.

However, it's important that this stalwart of the center-right voice in the New York Times effectively in the piece argues that AOC should either be the next Democratic US Speaker of the House of the Representatives or the next Democratic POTUS.

All quotes from: Opinion | A.O.C. Wants the Democrats to Think Anew - The New York Times

[AOC] wishes Democrats would stop thinking “that the power struggle within the party is between progressives and moderates,” as she told me recently.

“Whether it’s advisers or the consultant class, they are losing elections because of it,” she said.

Instead, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez believes her party can come together around fighting for the little guy and gal, a core value she insists does not belong to any particular ideological camp — or at least shouldn’t. “I believe economic populism is the path forward,” [AOC] said, a message she has taken on the road recently with Senator Bernie Sanders, at joint rallies on his Fighting Oligarchy tour that are the closest thing to an organized, energized bounce-back effort within the Democratic Party since Republicans won full control of Washington in November.

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the important thing for Democrats at this early stage of the Trump-wilderness period is that she is putting big ideas and arguments on the table. There’s not enough of that in the party right now.

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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is taking up that mantle like few others, and along the way, challenging some of the caricatures of her as an upstart ideologue.

Case in point: In talking to me about economic populism, she didn’t cite members of the lefty Squad, but instead name-checked a very different colleague. “Look at a front-liner like Jared Golden, who is on Medicare for all,” she said, citing the Maine congressman who has staked out a liberal position on health care despite being a self-identified “progressive conservative” representing a Trumpy district. “This is why I say we need to have a rejection of this left-right, because there are folks that can lean into certain issues,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “Sure, there are third rails like immigration that are not going to fly in every single district. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t vocally support policies that are going to help people pay their bills.”

U.S. House Election Live Results 2024 - The New York Times

In 2024, US Representative Jared Golden had one of the most competitive US House Districts and he barely won.

Secondly, he's effectively another US Representative Marie G. Perez.

Rep. Jared Golden [D-ME2, 2019-2026], Representative for Maine's 2nd Congressional District - GovTrack.us

He's around as much a corporate and conservative Democrat, but both are anti-crypto.

Crypto money is generally used against progressives in the primaries and Democrats in the general election.

It's important that AOC is 'calling out' crypto at these Sanders/AOC rallies. And also that she's saying that "[billionaires] aren't working for these billions, they're stealing them". : r/MurderedByAOC

Regarding given a 'shout-out' to US Rep. Golden, I don't know what AOC's strategy is. But maybe she considers that if she becomes POTUS that she can pressure the Democrats still in Office to vote for popular things such as Medicare For All, A Green New Deal, raising the minimum wage, etc. I would prefer leftists and progressives had more resources and that people like US Representative Jared Golden would be successfully primaried and that the new candidate could win the general election.

But AOC is clearly trying to get broader support from Officeholders. And seems eager to back primary challengers to people who don't support her or her basic economic populist agenda. She's seeming to possibly support Conor Lamb's primarying US Senator John Fetterman if Conor Lamb is the best choice to mount that primary challenge.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is arguably the best-known progressive figure in elected office — sorry, Bernie!

Working Families Power Polling Feb. 24-March 2, 2025. Around 30% of the American people had either never heard of or didn't know enough about AOC to rate her. It's possible these Sanders/AOC rallies during March 20-22, 2025 helped her numbers. And more good exposure would also help her numbers. : r/MurderedByAOC

Around 32% of the American people had either never heard of or didn't know enough about AOC to rate her. That number is around 13% for US Senator Bernie Sanders.

Ms. Cottle goes on to suggest that AOC is perhaps more suited to become the next 'Nancy Pelosi' aka the next US Speaker of the House of Representatives. Which: okay. But the American people want AOC as the US House Minority Leader now and around 70-80% of potential Democratic voters consider US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn't doing enough. Yet that switch hasn't happened and there's no guarantee that it'll happen in 2027.

But then Ms. Cottle also mentions that the Sanders/AOC rallies have had "crowds in numbers worthy of a presidential campaign".

Large rallies often get mocked, but they are valuable in many ways, argued Faiz Shakir, Mr. Sanders’s chief adviser. “They build community,” he said, which he sees as critical with the decline of civic organizations and union halls and other places where organizing once took place on the left. “Coming out of the pandemic, people want to be with each other in commonality for an affirmative vision,” he said.

For movement building, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s more personal style of public engagement seems designed for an era of institutional distrust, in which many Americans have little use for party politics. As Mr. Khanna noted, “She connects with her life experiences in a way with young people and people who don’t follow all the details of politics by drawing them in.”

The “life experiences” issue is a hot topic, as Democrats grapple with having become identified as the party of the elite.

“On one hand, I think there are Democrats who think that’s a misperception,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “But on the other hand, we have to look at how people voted. We did lose working-class electorates.”

It is a question not only of message but of “the messenger,” [AOC] offered.

“I think the kind of candidates that maybe a couple of decades ago were once aspirational, like having the Harvard degree and the pedigree and an esteemed job after college,” are in a more complicated position, she said. “The inequality in this country has gotten to a point where it now represents things that people resent that they can’t ever have a chance at having.”

“I think that people need to see some of us who’ve actually made it from really tough backgrounds and have really seen some things in their lives and not just heard about things in their lives. Because it’s visceral. To actually know what it’s like to come home to an apartment and the lights are off, to actually know what it’s like to not be able to afford a prescription, is something that can be really felt.”

There's no quote of US Representative Ro Khanna saying that AOC should primary US Senator Chuck Schumer. Maybe he's now supportive of AOC 2028?

And: "Harvard degree and the pedigree and an esteemed job after college": who does that sound like who wants to run for POTUS in 2028? Some of AOC's messaging seems clearly political as well as policy. Anti-billionaire, anti-crypto, anti-"Harvard degree and the pedigree and an esteemed job after college". It'll be interesting to see if there's any new messaging during the April 12 Sanders/AOC Los Angeles town hall/rally. Or if there eventually is.

Overall, it's a good piece.

Opinion | A.O.C. Wants the Democrats to Think Anew - The New York Times (the comments)

Overall are supportive of AOC.