Completely disingenuous article claiming at first that Mamdani is unpopular outside of NYC followed by stats that show that many Americans don’t even have an opinion on him.
Guess what?! Not many people in Missouri or California are going to give a damn about a local election in another state!
For starters, Mamdani is clearly not popular outside of New York City.
A Siena College poll this week showed statewide New York voters disliked him 37%-28% – and that’s in a left-leaning state.
A recent Yahoo News-YouGov poll, meanwhile, showed a relatively similar verdict among Americans nationwide: 31%-22% negative.
While those aren’t good numbers, they don’t exactly suggest he’s a pariah who could be used effectively as a bogeyman on the national stage – at least yet. In the national survey, 46% didn’t even have an opinion of the Democratic mayoral nominee, underscoring the room that exists for him to define himself — or be defined by others. (Even in New York, 34% of voters didn’t have an opinion about him.)
I’m not from the states, and never understand how mamdani is special. This is probably just another America exceptionalism. American is generally a collection of suburbs. Most of world are more modernized/urbanized, and politicians like mamdani is much more common there.
He’s special because there aren’t many politicians like him in America, the country we’re talking about.
It’s another example of American exceptionalism. In Europe he’s a dime a dozen.