The main course comes November 6. . .and guess who's on the menu?

in caucuses, which benefit a different kind of candidate because of substantially lower turnout than primaries.

Two years ago we only had 4.5% turnout in our caucuses. Primaries make it possible for many more to vote.

Good for New York, encouraging everyone to vote!

so weird.

the GOP. We need big turn outs to defeat that crowd.

It holds its state primaries in September, in the midterm federal election year. (NYC holds its primaries/election in the year between the presidential election and midterms. The primaries are also in September.)

I've already voted 3 times this year, since we had a special election in my election district earlier.

Would like to know because I just got back from being an Election Inspector (poll worker) for the day. NYC suburb.

Blaming a loss on a high turnout?
We've always hoped for a large turnout in the past.

bother to vote.

A large turnout is good for democracy, but doesn't always benefit individual candidates -- especially GOP candidates.

higher speaker fees now, and she may well pop up in our living rooms through more acting positions.

Or find a secret plan

Cuomo got 63% of them.

Right now (10:31PM), with 69.6% precincts reporting, there are 1,082,329 votes counted, with Cuomo getting 65.6%

2014 votes: https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2014/Primary/2014StateLocalPrimaryElectionResults.pdf
2018: NYT

Bye.

rare occurrence, a fluke even.

And not a good thing for Dems to wish for. High turnout is in our best interests as it means we're getting the vote out.

She made a name for herself in politics. She could ruin it with these silly pronouncements.

There were lots of people that voted for Teachout, Biaggi, etc and Cuomo. I don't think most NYers are suicidal enough to put someone like Nixon in charge.

You would think we would have learned our fucking lesson by now.

If Nixon wants a new career in politics, let her run for city council. Then mayor, state legislature, etc., etc. You know, the same way that people who actually know what they're doing do it.

.... about one of the Midwest primaries.

It's embarrassing that a Democrat would say something like that.

need to make sure you’re in the correct party. The GOP has the “pray for rain” hope every election because lower voter turnout is a win for them.

If you sound like GOP trash you didn’t deserve votes.

Cynthia Nixon: "We can't just be a “kinder, gentler, more diverse version” of the GOP."

THAT's what she thinks we are? And she's going to fix us.

Bye Felicia.



This just confirms the underhanded tactics being used.

Not one. She was never seen by the VAST majority of NYers as anything but a vanity candidate. Hoping for low turnout shows we were right.

High turnout is good. In this case it's amazing given it was a primary vote not the actual midterm. Cynthia Nixon needs to suck it up. Sometimes you lose.