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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole “rich white liberals are Mamdani’s base!” storyline isn’t even true.

Look at this graphic on the raw number of voters in the NYC Dem primary and their income:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/OwenWntr/status/1937949933111521684[/twitter]

The data analyst states that for this data set of NYC Dem primary voters, the median 50th percentile individual income is $50K. This is significantly lower than the median individual income for NYC overall at around $70K. In sum, NYC Dem primary voters are poorer than average NY’er.

For Cuomo, Mamdani, and Lander the vast majority of their raw voters came from people in the $20K-$75K median income range. Those are not well-off people in NYC! Even a public school janitor in NYC makes $60K. And it’s really hard to live in NYC on that kind of money.

Let’s look at another graphic, which looks at voters in the data set by their income percentile (remember $50K = 50th percentile):

[twitter]https://twitter.com/OwenWntr/status/1938163473709441455[/twitter]

The story that clearly emerges is as such:
-Cuomo easily won the poorest 5% of the voters
-Cuomo and Mamdani closely split voters in the 10th to 50th income percentile
-Mamdani dominates among voters in the 50th to 95th percentile
-Cuomo easily wins the wealthiest 5% of NYC voters in the Dem primary

Mamdani has a very broad base of support; this just isn’t a “white social trust fund hipster” phenomenon. I know that’s the story in rightwing Twitter and FinTwit, but Mamdani (like Cuomo and Lander) got the vast majority of his voters from people in 10th to 50th percentile of incomes. Those are not well-off people. [/quote]

Mamdani won  Asians, Hispanics, whites-generally  younger voters in the city
Cuomo won Italians, Jews, and blacks-generally  older voters in the city

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