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
      214·
      3 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.

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
    158·
    4 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·
    4 days ago

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

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    43·
    4 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
      46·
      4 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
        19·
        4 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
        10·
        4 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
          8·
          3 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
        11·
        3 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 the white man.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      4 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·
        3 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
          3·
          3 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
      41·
      3 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·
        3 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
      5·
      2 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
      47·
      3 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.

      • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 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.