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Alex Burns @alexburnsNYT
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The Ocasio-Cortez upset was all the more striking and important because it happened in NYC, a culturally liberal city with a rigid, wildly out-of-date political structure & laws that discourage competition & voting

mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/…
Probably not coincidental that the only defeat of an incumbent Dem in a primary so far — along with the near-defeat of Yvette Clarke — happened in a city that has ruthlessly stifled political competition mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/…
It’s gonna be convenient for a lot of Dems to act like AOC won b/c Crowley blew it. But that would ignore what happened in other Dem primaries in NYC last night that divided on generational lines. This wasn’t just about one incumbent and his flaws. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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