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
      111·
      9 hours 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
          43·
          9 hours 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
            7·
            5 hours 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.

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 minutes 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
      45·
      9 hours 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
        3·
        5 hours 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
        4·
        5 hours 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.