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Cynthia Nixon lost the day she compared Cuomo to Trump. (I.e. very long time ago.) everything after that was just noise
6:46 PM - 13 Sep 2018
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Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cha
(297,351 posts)ANYTHING. lol
greyl
(22,990 posts)betsuni
(25,550 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)...opium of the people!
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Cha
(297,351 posts)fucking stupid hype.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)raging moderate
(4,307 posts)There is a reason we usually choose governors who have been involved in government for awhile. Ditto for Presidents.
R B Garr
(16,955 posts)Now she can go comfort herself with her $60 million.
DinahMoeHum
(21,797 posts). . .but back in March this year, I saw an interesting story that articulated why Nixon was not the one to challenge Cuomo and win.
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/20/cynthia-nixon-doesnt-deserve-to-be-governor/#close
tblue37
(65,423 posts)dmr
(28,347 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)No experience and up against a NY political dynasty. I voted for his father, a great Democrat.
TeamPooka
(24,231 posts)without putting in some time at a lower level job first.
Sure I want to be Governor and President too but I'd rather have an experienced policymaker who has dedicated a life to public service being elected instead of TV stars all the time.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,493 posts)Lets be honest here, there was never a chance she was going to win.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I'm still not quite getting her comment about pot being reparations for black neighborhoods?
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)So she thought that would give her coverage to repeat that stupidity.
Didn't dawn on her we don't all smoke pot or want to be legal drug dealers.
I'd love to explain it, but it would probably takes someone like Killer Mike, who smokes daily to do so.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)She lost because too many people voted. It's Cuomo's fault because he had a very effective GOTV campaign.