Winning both above and below median income is a little nuts…
It’s honestly just the 1% freaking out
Really what I don’t understand about Americans … they are given two political options … one sensible one and one batshit crazy one … and it’s still a complicated toss-up that they have to endlessly debate about.
Yes, but the sensible one has icky brown people. And my pastor told me that us blond blue eyed tall people are the chosen ones. You see, that’s why we are politically “right”, cuz we’re on the right side! Gahyuck 😛
This is what happens when money can purchase politics.
The American education system only had a very brief window of competency…
That’s it, the tragic truth is we’re woefully uneducated. There was a brief bright spot in the 80s/90s but even that wasn’t great.
Other than that, it’s the fact that so much of the country is isolated small towns. People in NYC and bumfuck Alabama don’t really have a lot in common, so there’s no real unifying identity or even set of values.
And then obviously oligarchs corrupting both parties so they couldn’t lose. But its worth mentioning they lost control of the DNC almost a year ago.
We are bombarded with propaganda and large numbers of us aren’t able to filter out true information. All of it is by design. While we’re running around arguing with each other and being appalled by the outrage of the week the billionaires and their cronies (our “elected” representatives) do everything they can to siphon more and more money out of us. We’re fed constant comfort and false security that keeps us complacent for fear that it’ll be taken away. We’re constantly forced to compare ourselves to others keeping us striving beyond reason to attain X so we can be happy or fulfilled or whatever their selling.
But you see, only one side wants to punish the people I don’t like, so… the choice is clear. /s
Every time I look all options are crazy. Some might be slightly less crazy, but all are crazy in some way.
No it’s not. This is divisive bullshit and statistics gore.
The numbers you’re looking at are how districts with more or less transit riders / drivers voted. On top of that, it was a pretty close split amongst both sides, with just slightly more on each side leaning one way or another.
Wouldn’t drivers also want free transit so there’s less traffic?
They’re not thinking with facts they’re thinking with feelings.
Not really - they are paying a lot for their car and want transit riders to take more of the share of the transit costs. If they gain more from free transit than they cost is a complex subject.
They may also understand that transit is expensive and for most the cost of transit isn’t why they wouldn’t ride in the first place and so free transit won’t make much a difference. Meanwhile charging for transit and also giving transit the money that free transit would cost would give enough money that better service could be provided and poor service (for the individual trip) is why most people don’t ride transit. (though NYC transit spends far more on better service than it should so who knows)
Staten Island, you say!
URL?
Idk what I’m looking at lol. Don’t blame me though I’m from Wisconsin
Zohran Mamdani is the democratic socialist democrat, Cuomo the Sex Pest is the former democrat governor of the state, and Curtis Sliwa is the republican.
Districts with the freaks that drive cars in NYC voted more against Mamdani and everyone else for Mamdani.
Districts with the freaks that drive cars in NYC voted more against Mamdani and everyone else for Mamdani.
This is uncalled for. People who are different are not freaks and need to be thought of as humans who are different.
District is a poor measure - others have pointed out already there was a close split, but you can abuse statistics to make them show any division you want.
People who are different are not freaks
Are they really all that different though? I drive too. Granted, not in NYC, but still doesn’t really justify that kind of behavior.
Misleading statistics gore.
And note that Sliwa voters composed 15% of drivers - about double that of residents above median income.
So 58% of districts are at or above median income, but only 24% of districts have more drivers than riders?
Could it be that both variables are closely correlated, and the latter is just sampling closer to the tail end of the distribution?
You can see something similar in NJ Governor’s election as well.
