Biden support slips in deep blue New York: ‘We’re a battleground state now’
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The dems that NYC elects turn out to be just a republican as their opponents, this statement doesn't mean much.

Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, Cuomo, Spitzer, Weiner, Gillibrand, Schumer, etc. etc. Then when you look at the house of reps they elect people like George Santos lol. NY has always essentially been a red state.
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George Santos was elected in Long island, which is very red (bc they are a bunch of rich see you next tuesdays.).   NYC just doesn't have enough voter turnout except in the general elections.  So it makes it so that suburbs, old people, and rich people control the politics all around.
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The district he was elected in (my district) contains part of Queens(which is part of NYC ) and was gerrymandered to contain southern and northern parts of nassau, these aren't the most wealthy parts of LI, certainly not rich. The median home income is $132,794 which would mean the district is mostly middle class, the top 20%  in NYS is \~158k. In either case Santos and his replacement (Suozzi) are basically the same in terms of effectiveness.

Manhattan, which is deep blue has a median household income of $175,743. I don't think is as simple as what you're saying but I see the reasoning.

&gt;So it makes it so that suburbs, old people, and rich people control the politics all around.

does this mean that their votes are actually counted more or that they outnumber city, younger, and less well off people in general, the blue candidates that  city, younger, and less well off people vote for are generally just as bad as the republicans they run against.
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The issue is voter turnout, NYC has abysmal turnout, which could easily be solved by mail in ballots.
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NYC has had access to mail ballots, it's one of the easiest areas to vote in. People simply don't vote because electoral is a sham system that yields no actual results when all the presented options are republicans and dems pretending not to be republicans. a real democracy would take into consideration that people eligible voters didn't elect these leaders and not put them in power until there's a true majority. And they should give up candidates that people want to vote for. You shouldn't have to vote to have your opinion taken into account for representation.
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