Actress Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City to run for NY Governor

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I hope Nixon beats Cuomo but saying that her lack of experience in elective office is somehow a plus, that's the stupidest thing I've read today. All things equal, it's always better to have a seasoned candidate rather than an inexperienced one.

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Well, that escalated quickly.

https://twitter.com/nypmetro/status/976133891441512449

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Anyway, the skepticism of Nixon's qualifications just proves Hillary was right to tout her qualifications. A lot of people sneered at her for emphasizing that point, but a woman has to be better. Unlike a man, she can't go from state senator, independent socialist from a throwaway state, or reality TV star to the nuclear button in a handful of campaign years.

Wow, that was a pretty bad post. The same people who were called sexist in the Presidential primary tend to support Nixon. And Democrats would certainly have the Senate if they didn't think of certain states as throwaway.

Your candidate said an entire region of the country doesn't matter.

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I wonder if Cuomo will bring back his dad's famous "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" rallying cry from 1977. 

Andrew Cuomo was the manager for that campaign. Those posters were his doing.

He wasn't even 20 years old then. It was his father's 1982 gubernatorial campaign he managed.

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If Cuomo loses the Dem nomination but is nominated for Working Families and/or Women's Equality Party (which is apparently stacked with Cuomo's people), do you think he'd win the general?

Cuomo has done everything in his power to destroy the Working Families Party, so I don't understand why would they throw him a lifeline.

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I wonder what a general election race between Cynthia Nixon(D), Andrew Cuomo (I), and Some Guy (R) would look like...

Something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York,_1980

Except that there is no way in hell a Republican takes 45% of the vote in 2018.

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Is Cuomo really that delusional to believe that he has a chance in 2020?
What's exactly his base? People who thought Joe Lieberman was insufficiently bi-partisan?

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"The progressive left" and "the labor left" increasingly don't get along with one another.

I don't think that a bunch of corrupt bosses who are chummy with Cuomo are representative of the labor left.

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11 months is a ridiculous amount of time. Who besides us nerds are even paying attention to electoral politics 11 months before a primary?

At the Maine Democratic Convention in 2016, I had a Bernie delegate tell me he was in favor of closed primaries with a 6-month cutoff. It was surprising coming from a Bernie delegate and I think even that 6 months is stretching it. I’m thinking 2 months top.

Lack of early voting and felon disenfranchisement are much bigger problems.
If Berniecrats really care about democracy they should start from there.

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11 months is a ridiculous amount of time. Who besides us nerds are even paying attention to electoral politics 11 months before a primary?

At the Maine Democratic Convention in 2016, I had a Bernie delegate tell me he was in favor of closed primaries with a 6-month cutoff. It was surprising coming from a Bernie delegate and I think even that 6 months is stretching it. I’m thinking 2 months top.

Lack of early voting and felon disenfranchisement are much bigger problems.
If Berniecrats really care about democracy they should start from there.

But that Brooklyn voter purge during the 2016 primaries was totally fine, right?

I heard Soros and the Illuminati did it.

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Buffalo Chronicle - Cuomo considering dropping out and allowing Nixon to have the nomination, to preserve his reputation for a 2020 Presidential campaign, as a worst-case scenario

https://buffalochronicle.com/2018/04/24/cuomo-considering-options-in-a-worst-case-scenario/

The fact that he thinks he has any chance at all in 2020 proves he is insanely out of touch with reality.

I've been saying that for years. If he is foolish enough to run he will make Joe Lieberman's 2004 campaign look like a juggernaut.