The bigger problem here is that Republicans had a pretty good chance to pull an upset on a split ticket here and the best they had to offer was Curtis fucking Silwa for the 10th time.
https://twitter.com/karol/status/1937701319915049115
I do think people are thinking a bit too deeply about this. Asians voted for him because he's Asian. Whites voted for him because they actually hate Cuomo and wanted an alternative. I think anyone who ran a good campaign who wasn't Cuomo would have won.
The deeper issue that Democrats are facing in New York right now is they are old and full of baggage. It's the same way that AOC won. If some slick, young DSA candidate mounts a good campaign against like Jerry Nadler, he's going to lose.
It's as much about the new people being slick and brown and young vs white and Jewish and old as it is them being DSA.
In other words, If I was Dan "Goldman" looking at my district today, I'd be shitting bricks.
In other words, If I was Dan "Goldman" looking at my district today, I'd be shitting bricks.
I posted this the other day, but old guard New York Democrats are up shit creek in a lot of ways because their guaranteed base of black people is a smaller voting block than it was even 10 years ago and it's declining.
And as we're seeing, Asians are *way* more likely to run for office in neighborhoods where they're the clear majority than black people. And they win.
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