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It's a big talking point. Mayor of NYC is basically seen as wielding equivalent power to the state governor, so it's a popular comparison, and shows that Memdani's politics which work well for a urban liberal city don't scale to state wide policies, which is quite common in the US. The real power and show that Dem politics are changing is if Memdani's approval increases state wide and more DSA members win elections across the US in November. It seems like in very strong Dem districts this is possible, but in toss up, or weaker Dem districts, the centrists Dems are the ones that have been winning primaries.
Yeah, it's a big talking point, but it doesn't make it any less weird. It's not his job or his responsibility, and the biggest problem is like you said - He's SEEN as wielding equivalent power. He's doing a good job as mayor because he's NOT trying to appeal to the rest of the state and is focusing on directly improving the lives of the people in NYC, as it should be.
Otherwise, why stop the polling at the state level? Why not poll all of New England? Why not poll Canada? They're just as close by and have the exact same level of influence over and from him.
It doesn't show that at all. That's like polling people in Florida about Mamdani and using it to claim that "his policies wouldn't scale well to the country." That's utter nonsense.
Regardless of if he's "seen as" wielding equivalent power to the governor, he factually, objectively, does not have the power to govern NY outside of the city. Therefore, nobody outside of the city is actually experiencing his policies firsthand.
Even then, a good policy can sometimes take time to actually produce results. To actually be able to claim his policies "don't scale well" to the state level, we would first have to see what he would actually propose if he were governing at a state level, and then we would have to evaluate not only whether those policies are popular but whether they produce results. It's complete and utter nonsense, absurdly premature to draw conclusions based off what some random person he's not governing or necessarily trying to win over thinks of him, which is just based on whatever the media they consume says.
Also, the name is Mamdani, M-A-M-D-A-N-I
Fucking spell his name right
LOL, autocorrect is doing a terrible job today.