oreosfly t1_ivx0kus wrote
Reply to comment by Responsible-Try-5228 in Andrew Cuomo says Zeldin coming within 5 points of victory ‘a real wake-up call’ by PichuLovy
Oh please. The four seats they lost were theirs to lose. These were suburban NYC seats, not seats smack in the middle of Stefanik country. Three were rated by FiveThirtyEight as Democratic leaning and the fourth was a tossup. Zeldin dragged down ballot GOP candidates across the finish line by running up the numbers outside of the five boroughs. Hochul was a weak candidate atop the ticket and it showed with weak performances down the ballot.
IllegibleLedger t1_ivxb4ao wrote
You do get that her running is also on Cuomo right?
oreosfly t1_ivyeh8v wrote
Cuomo is the reason why she is governor but not the reason why she had to run such a weak campaign
lawanddisorder t1_ivyyeit wrote
This is correct. Hochul lost Nassau County by 9 points. Cuomo won Nassau County by 15 points in 2018. A 24-point swing in four years is malpractice.
A -9 point number is a huge number to make up if you're down ballot and it's no surprise that the Democratic House and State Senate nominees (except for the one in the majority-minority district) went down in flames.
ChrisFromLongIsland t1_ivxh2b2 wrote
Both are right Hochul ran a terrible campaign and the fix was in where the red states gerrymandered illegally and used the maps anyway with zero consequences and NY in the end did not use the illegally drawn partisan maps.
The argument being if one side cheats why can't I?
hau5keeping t1_ivxza6n wrote
Dems did try to end the cheating at the Federal level (H.R. 1) but Congressional Republicans didn’t support it. Theres only one side to blame here, and i say that as someone who hates the dems
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