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[quote=Anonymous]My point on Lander was this: if Cuomo is indeed flailing - as his debate performance plus the emergency cash injection from Bloomberg seem to suggest - then if your goal is to stop Mamdani, ranking Lander might more helpful than ranking Cuomo.

For example: imagine that in the second-to-last round, Cuomo has 41 votes, Mamdani has 30 and Lander has 29. Lander is knocked out by the slimmest of margins, but thanks to cross-endorsements, Mamdani gets most of his votes and easily ends up with more votes than Cuomo. Your vote for Cuomo would not change this outcome because he's too far behind; on the other hand, a single vote for Lander could make a big difference because they're so close.

(this is not all that far-fetched, see for example this recent poll https://empirereportnewyork.com/nyc-mayoral-polling-data-for-destination-tomorrow/ - Lander starts small but picks up most of the Myrie / Adams / Stringer votes and ends up almost even)

You can even rank Cuomo after Lander and still pull off this strategy - ranking Cuomo first (or only after Tilson, who's not going to make it very deep into this thing) means your vote does nothing until the final round.[/quote]

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