Here's my rough estimates for the NYC Mayor primary:
Chance of making it to final round vs. Adams:
Garcia 47%
Wiley 37%
Yang 16%
Chance of beating Adams if they make it to the final round:
Garcia 50%
Wiley 34%
Yang 28%
Overall chances:
Adams 59%
Garcia 24%
Wiley 13%
Yang 4%
An average of 6 ranked choice polls that have the Adams vs. Garcia vs. Wiley penultimate round have Garcia edging out Wiley by 1.83 points. Garcia may also get a boost here from the Yang alliance.
Yang has a chance at the final round, but his position has deteriorated recently.
The average of ranked choice polls suggests Adams vs. Garcia would be a toss-up.
DFP had Wiley doing 12 points worse than Garcia versus Adams, while CitizenData had it at 4 pts.
Yang's best polls (Ipsos/Schoen Cooperman) still have him losing to Adams.
Yang has an outside shot of winning, but he would need a pretty decent polling error.
The theory of the case would basically be that the polls are undercounting low social trust and non-English speaking voters who may disproportionately like Yang.
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The NYC Mayor results we get tonight will only be first round preferences for early + election day votes (NOT absentee).
The Adams/Wiley campaigns estimated 800k-900k total turnout on the Dem side.
87k Dem absentee ballots have been returned so far out of 208k requested.
(1/4)
32% of returned absentee ballots (Democrats) are from Manhattan while 24% are from Brooklyn. The 32% is likely higher than Manhattan's share of the Democratic primary electorate while 24% is likely lower than Brooklyn's share.
Manhattan will probably be Garcia's strongest borough while Brooklyn will be one of Adams' strongest boroughs.
So based on the absentee ballot data I'd say Garcia is probably the candidate most likely to move up with absentees while Adams is most likely to move down.
#1: Perdue edged out Ossoff by 1.78 points in the first round.
#2: Early vote data shows strong initial Democratic turnout, especially with Black voters.
#3: Polls give Democrats a *very slight* edge.
#1 favors GOP and #2/3 favor Democrats.
The ratings are based on my confidence in each side winning rather than the expected margins.
There's a lot of uncertainty in this election, and there are very strong arguments in favor of Republicans pulling this off.
A lot of this comes down to how revealing you think the early vote data is.
On one hand, many people have been burned by EV analysis in the past. The GOP can just show up on Election Day.
But there are a few factors that make EV potentially more interesting this time...
(2/6)
First, we have a decent baseline comparison of the November election. It's recent enough that there probably aren't a ton of people changing their minds.
This makes Early Vote analysis better than comparing 2012 to 2016, for example, when many people switched sides.
In the past, white working class voters voted more like the country as a whole, making these counties a good barometer for the country.
But in 2016, Trump made massive gains with white voters without a college degree, helping him win many bellwether counties by double-digits.
The bellwether counties actually became unrepresentative of America in 2016, when they voted 16 points to the right of the nation (versus 1 point to the left of the nation in 2012).
They only retained their bellwether status that year because Trump narrowly won the election.