I have always looked at New York's city politics like Phil Leotardo thought of the DiMeo crime family in the Sopranos, "Five (copulation) families, and we got this pygmy thing over in Jersey."
Giuliani and Koch were nominal Democrats, but Republicans seemed to like them both just as much. And you always have this "RENT IS TOO HIGH" guy at all of the debates, looking and acting like Cornell West on a good hair/bad hair day.
To top it off, New York City has a Conservative Party and a Liberal Party. Both nominal in that they usually support one major party.
And the city is large enough to where it is kind of its own country in and of itself.
It is not even a city that I even long to visit. One time, years ago, I looked at taking a 3-4 day trip there. The hotels for one night were as much as the roundtrip plane tickets.
So today, we have two candidates vying. One is a disgraced former Gov of NY who resigned due to a sex scandal. The other guy is a Muslim, but someone who is hard to categorize in that he's Muslim, but he's pro-LGBTQ, and swings pretty hard left.
Republicans nationally seemed unusually upset and obsessed with Mamdani, as if their corn flakes will have pee in them tomorrow if he wins. I really don't see how my life will be affected one way or another.....if the sex creep or the leftist wins. But I'm 23 days away from retiring, so I really don't give a crap either way.
Giuliani and Koch were nominal Democrats, but Republicans seemed to like them both just as much. And you always have this "RENT IS TOO HIGH" guy at all of the debates, looking and acting like Cornell West on a good hair/bad hair day.
To top it off, New York City has a Conservative Party and a Liberal Party. Both nominal in that they usually support one major party.
And the city is large enough to where it is kind of its own country in and of itself.
It is not even a city that I even long to visit. One time, years ago, I looked at taking a 3-4 day trip there. The hotels for one night were as much as the roundtrip plane tickets.
So today, we have two candidates vying. One is a disgraced former Gov of NY who resigned due to a sex scandal. The other guy is a Muslim, but someone who is hard to categorize in that he's Muslim, but he's pro-LGBTQ, and swings pretty hard left.
Republicans nationally seemed unusually upset and obsessed with Mamdani, as if their corn flakes will have pee in them tomorrow if he wins. I really don't see how my life will be affected one way or another.....if the sex creep or the leftist wins. But I'm 23 days away from retiring, so I really don't give a crap either way.
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RED districts in Cumberland County, NJ, the machines are down. 
Cumberland County, NJ
