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    1. Not much of a surprise, the 29% of MAGA Republicans would vote for a dead dog so long as someone said it was a Republican dog that supported Republican ideals. Thought and reason are not their strong suit

    2. da2Pakaveli on

      Perhaps because MAGA hated Cuomo as a governor? …which is a perfectly valid opinion

    3. harambe_did911 on

      Weird election for sure. Happy to see some norms start to get broken up though

    4. nighthawk252 on

      I mean Sliwa was the only Republican on the ballot, it’s not surprising that a lot of Republicans felt he was the closest to their political beliefs. I think it’s much more bizarre that almost 70% of self-described MAGA voters were actually willing to vote for a Democrat because Trump told them to.

    5. Responsible_Ad_7995 on

      It’s embarrassing that such a great city filled with such talented people seems to have a real problem attracting talent to mayoral races over and over again.

    6. ill_try_my_best on

      Your average voter has incoherent political beliefs more at 11. (Interesting finding)

    7. Exit polls have all sorts of validity issues, esp bc of collector bias in selecting interviewees, but social desirability, the desire to manipulate the results is also present in respondents.

    8. I once had a conversation with a dude at a bar who was wearing a Trump shirt, and had just come from a Trump rally. I asked if he was going to vote, and he said no. I asked why, and he said, „I don’t want to have to vote for Trump.“ Politics is weird and unpredictable.

    9. This is not at all surprising. Presumably much the 11% of democratic socialists who voted for Cuomo did so because they thought Mamdani doesn’t have the experience or the character for the role. Presumably the 8% of MAGA who voted for Mamdani did so because they hate Cuomo, but still wanted to vote for a candidate that has a chance of winning. And the 29% who voted for Sliwa were presumably doing so because they knew he couldn’t win, but could not bring themselves to vote for either Mamdani or Cuomo given their policies are anathema to a MAGA republicans.

    10. Jewish voters (16% of the electorate) voted more than 2-1 for Andrew Cuomo.

      Mamdani, and the left wing of the Democratic party in general, has a lot more to do to convince Jewish Americans that they are not anti-semitic.

    11. The just selected the republican because they are casual voters or they just voted trump because they just like red hats

    12. Eff-Bee-Exx on

      I’m not that familiar with Sliwa, but isn’t his reputation sort of law-and-order? That alone would probably make him more attractive than the other two, particularly if he has any other non-leftist positions.

    13. MAGA folks are fickle. I mean, just look at the basis of what/who they believe in. These people can turn on a dime.

    14. Super_Mario_Luigi on

      The first half of the headline was insightful, the last half is delusional

    15. I’ve only seen a few clips of Sliwa but this doesn’t surprise me, he comes across as a big brash personality like Trump and I think most MAGA people are just emotionally driven and easily persuaded, they don’t really bother with the actual principles behind anything 

    16. actually I dont find it too shocking. part of voting is a herd or team mentality where people will vote with the team no matter what regardless of how counterintuitive it is.

    17. Curtis Sliwa is very much aligned with MAGA philosophy, so his spat with Trump was likely taken with a big ol grain of salt by voters.

      But I think this shows the reality of a complex electorate. we’re used to talking about politics in terms of Red.and Blue while also discussing only the reactions of a marginal group of undecided voters in a handful of swing states. But a social democrat who nonetheless believes that Cuomo would be more effective than Mamdani is hardly difficult to imagine.

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