Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state
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In a Siena poll, released Aug. 12, 811 likely New York voters were surveyed on many politicians in the state, including Mamdani. Here's what to know.

In June, he was at 58%.

    • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      Except it’s only for NYC, for the rest of the state his approval ratings are actually going down. That’s common though. Urban liberal areas usually think positively of liberal politicians, but when you add in rural areas, their approval ratings drop dramtically. Basically nothing has changed, even with someone as well liked as Mamdani.

        • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 days ago

          Yes, we all know that he is the mayor of NYC, not the governor of NY. However the mayor of NYC is often seen as wielding as much power as the governor, hence why there are always comparisons, and they are valid when looking at larger approval ratings of policies. If this was some DSA mayor of a small city in the middle of nowhere, there wouldn’t even be a news story about it. Hell, there are many very liberal mayors in California, and they are hardly talked about, for the exact same reason.

          • spoopy@lemmy.world
            11·
            4 days ago

            Ok but why should he care about people who are literally not his constituents. Imo his approval rating with irrelevant people going down is a good sign: it means the mayor of NYC is actually paying attention and caring about NYC for once.

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
    158·
    5 days ago

    Its so rare for approval to climb after getting in office… Just proves that actually doing shit is feasible alternative to whatever the establishment has been up to for the best forever.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    117·
    5 days ago

    Look at that. It’s almost like the rest of the planet was right about social protections.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    45·
    5 days ago

    How do you disapprove of a guy trying to improve your life? I’m guessing the other 30% are a combination of rich assholes and dumb rednecks who know literally nothing about him?

    • Cherries@lemmy.world
      49·
      5 days ago

      here’s a map from a few weeks ago of Mamdani’s approval ratings. All the wealthy areas have red dissapproval ratings. Something I like to note is the red rectangle just off Central Park is Epstein Alley, the area where the richest assholes own property.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
        21·
        5 days ago

        New Yorker here to translate.

        Manhattan is almsot all green except for a sliver on 5th Avenue near Central Park. That’s the priciest area. Most of the rest of the borough is pretty pricey. even Harlem apartments are getting expensive, now that it’s being gentrified.

        Most of the red areas aren’t particularly pricey and certainly aren’t considered high class or exclusive.

        The bright red area all the way at the bottom left is the South Shore of Staten Island.

        I once met a woman who taught Art History at Staten Island College. She told me that many of her students had never made the trip into Manhattan to visit the Metropolitan Museum, one of the top museums in the world.

      • jtrek@startrek.website
        12·
        5 days ago

        That really red area under the mouse cursor is… Borough Park? Super conservative Jewish area? Or maybe bensonhurst? I live here but am apparently bad at maps.

        • Cherries@lemmy.world
          9·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, that’s Borough Park, famous for the Orthodox Jewish community doing stuff like diverting public education funds towards private religious schools or having a private bus system that used to require women to sit in the back until an investigation in 2011.

          The small red area just northeast is Crown Heights, famous for the hilarious synagogue tunnel story back in 2024. Basically, that area has some very pro-Zionist areas.

      • yonderbarn@lazysoci.alOP
        2·
        5 days ago

        It’s all the outskirts except for central Manhattan and surprisingly Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which I thought was part of the Commie Corridor. Flushing is expected considering many first generation Asians are conservative (read: racist) and prefer to vote for a white man.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      5 days ago

      As an intelligent Redneck I appreciate the modifier of stupid for my dumbfuck kin. Some of us stick to the old ways and wish to watch the corpos burn, but well we are fleeting nowadays. Though funny enough a lot of people outside the Redneck culture don’t recognize me as Redneck and peg me for the alternative title of American-Scot due to the fact I don’t fit most stereotypes, other Rednecks will look at me for five fucking seconds and proclaim kinship.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        Well yeah, redneck is just a word i use to describe people like my uncle who went out at 7am in his tighty-whities with cowboy boots on to feed the horses. Still love the guy, but that shits embarrassing.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          5 days ago

          Like if it’s on his property does he really need pants on? Like the only embarrassing thing I’m hearing is that he wears tightly whities and not boxer briefs.

    • Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      So just the other day I learned where the term redneck came from and I think you may want to go read about it because we are all misappropriating a term originally meant for class/labor solidarity with that of white trash that fuck their siblings and have a combined IQ that if it were an age not high enough to vote.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        6·
        5 days ago

        I grew up with white trash rednecks. Lived with them too. I don’t care what the original definition is. Language changes, and it isn’t being used that way anymore.

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 days ago

      It’s interesting to see the lengths that established media are going to in order to “both sides” this political opinion that is obviously not a 50/50 split.

      The headline is, “Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state.”

      Has any other New York mayor ever had this kind of approval rating? Maybe Giuliano immediately after 9/11 …

      I sincerely doubt that most NYC residents give a rat’s ass about what other residents of their state think about the city’s mayor.

    • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      It’s a big talking point. Mayor of NYC is basically seen as wielding equivalent power to the state governor, so it’s a popular comparison, and shows that Memdani’s politics which work well for a urban liberal city don’t scale to state wide policies, which is quite common in the US. The real power and show that Dem politics are changing is if Memdani’s approval increases state wide and more DSA members win elections across the US in November. It seems like in very strong Dem districts this is possible, but in toss up, or weaker Dem districts, the centrists Dems are the ones that have been winning primaries.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        6·
        4 days ago

        shows that Memdani’s politics which work well for a urban liberal city don’t scale to state wide policies

        It doesn’t show that at all. That’s like polling people in Florida about Mamdani and using it to claim that “his policies wouldn’t scale well to the country.” That’s utter nonsense.

        Regardless of if he’s “seen as” wielding equivalent power to the governor, he factually, objectively, does not have the power to govern NY outside of the city. Therefore, nobody outside of the city is actually experiencing his policies firsthand.

        Even then, a good policy can sometimes take time to actually produce results. To actually be able to claim his policies “don’t scale well” to the state level, we would first have to see what he would actually propose if he were governing at a state level, and then we would have to evaluate not only whether those policies are popular but whether they produce results. It’s complete and utter nonsense, absurdly premature to draw conclusions based off what some random person he’s not governing or necessarily trying to win over thinks of him, which is just based on whatever the media they consume says.

        Also, the name is Mamdani, M-A-M-D-A-N-I

      • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 days ago

        Yeah, it’s a big talking point, but it doesn’t make it any less weird. It’s not his job or his responsibility, and the biggest problem is like you said - He’s SEEN as wielding equivalent power. He’s doing a good job as mayor because he’s NOT trying to appeal to the rest of the state and is focusing on directly improving the lives of the people in NYC, as it should be.

        Otherwise, why stop the polling at the state level? Why not poll all of New England? Why not poll Canada? They’re just as close by and have the exact same level of influence over and from him.