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Andrew Yang NYC Mayoral Race
[h1][b]What If Andrew Yang Wins?[/b][/h1]
[link=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/05/andrew-yang-nyc-mayor/618391/]The Atlantic[/link]: His proposals are radical. Hes obsessed with robots. Hes never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York. Given the horrors of the past year, many [New York City] voters have lost what patience they had for incremental progress and technocratic small ball. Yang is going big. He has a deep campaign war chest and better name recognition than any other candidate in the crowded race.
While it remains competitive Eric Adams, Brooklyns borough president, and Maya Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, have significant support as of mid-March, Yang led the field by a 13-point margin.
[link=https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/04/07/a-mini-trump-new-york-mayoral-candidates-look-to-take-down-yang-1371914]Politico[/link]: Everybodys ganging up on Andrew Yang. The New York City mayors race has grown more vicious in recent weeks and the favorite target is Yang, who has come under attack for everything from his basic income and tax plans to his employment history and his second home upstate._________
538 podcast last week had agreement that Yang is the favorite. His name ID is far above any other which, in a crowded field using ranked choice voting, probably puts him in a very good position to win.
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he’s sort of the science-y Marianne Williamson. I think it’s entirely possible he could be a good mayor of a large city.
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Go Yanger go
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/548708-yang-expands-lead-in-nyc-mayor-race-poll]Yang expands lead in NYC mayor race: poll[/link]
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/548708-yang-expands-lead-in-nyc-mayor-race-poll]Yang expands lead in NYC mayor race: poll[/link]
Don’t know a lot about Yang but apparently NYC has really changed. Spoke with a longtime friend today who lives in BK, politically he leans left, but not super political. Essentially the schools are pushing hardcore indoctrination at the expense of general basic education. Apparently of his friends daughters thought the GW bridge was named after GW Carver. She did not know that our 1st present was GW. Cant make this stuff up.-
I had honestly never thought of the concept that ranked choice voting would lead to temporary alliances but… makes sense:
[h1]Yang and Garcia Form Late Alliance in NYC Mayors Race[/h1]
Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia, two leading candidates in the New York City mayors race, joined each other on the campaign trail on Saturday, a late alliance that the contests front-runner, Eric Adams, immediately sought to portray as an attempt to weaken the voice of minority voters, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/nyregion/yang-garcia-endorsement.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage]New York Times[/link] reports.
Mr. Yang and Ms. Garcia stopped short of an official cross-endorsement, with Mr. Yang urging voters to rank Ms. Garcia second on their ballots but Ms. Garcia refraining from doing the same for him. Still, the two distributed fliers at a rally in Queens that featured their photos and names side by side.
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