As time marches on, more and more people in the United States are
concerned over how polarizing the two major Political parties have become.
If
Andrew Cuomo had just been a more likeable candidate with less baggage, and run as a Moderate Democrat Candidate
in the New York City General Election, Andrew Cuomo would have won.
However, New York Laws are in place that protect both the Republican brand, and the
Democrat Brand, so whomever wins the Republican Primary Election, and whomever wins the
Democrat Primary Election, are the only 2 candidates that can use the name
Republican or Democrat in the General Election.
While Protecting each Political Party's brand seems both imperative, and logical, there is an underbelly that must be examined.
The
Democrat Party Agenda has radically shifted so far from the 1990's, they have
actually fortified their Primary voting base by suffocating viable
Democrat Centrist Opponents who would attract a much larger multi party
voting base in the general election, but never get the opportunity to
run in the General Election because they can't win the Democrat Primary
Race.
Only
ONE Independent Candidate has ever won the New York Mayoral race, so
Andrew Cuomo running as an independent was basically a recipe for
failure. A solid runner up in the Democrat Primary who ran as a
Moderate Democrat, would perform much better in the General
Election once Republicans and Independents can also vote, will never get the chance to run in the General Election as a Moderate Democrat because they lose the right to be the Moderate Democrat Candidate if they lose the Democrat Primary Race, and therein resides the New York City Mayoral race underbelly that is not being discussed.
A coalition of Independents, Republicans, and Centrist Democrats might have propelled a more likeable Andrew Cuomo with less baggage, to Mayor, but only if Andrew Cuomo could have run as a Moderate Democrat in the General Election.
Would Moderate Party
have worked as a compromise name for Andrew Cuomo since only the
Democrat Primary Winner can use the word Democrat in the General
Election; probably not, because without the word Democrat after Moderate, Mamdani's hold on loyal Democrat Primary voters would be too difficult for a Moderate to overcome in the General Election.
A
Democrat most likely would not vote for a Moderate Party Candidate in the Primary since it might mean Republican Moderate, and a Democrat Voter would
already have their own Democrat Primary Candidate to vote for.
No
matter how much Democrat loyalists from the good old days of the 1990's
fondly remember their Party, no matter how much the Democrat Party has
changed since the 1990's, the further left the Democrat Party went in
the New York 2025 Mayoral Democrat Primary Election, the more total Democrat
votes they picked up, as older, unhappy Moderate Democrats grudgingly
followed.
One
poll suggests that 1/5 of Biden Democrats will vote Republican in the
2026 midterm Elections; even if true, Mamdani's 2025 Mayoral Victory
in New York allows the mainstream media to chortle over the Mamdani
Mayoral Revolution that was built on a Mayoral Primary loophole that ironically allows Mamdani to campaign about the same old problems the Democrat Party created, while simultaneously bolstering additional Political Divisiveness between Parties, and also within their own Party, by veering so far left.
Andrew
Cuomo should have run as the Moderate Democrat in the New York Democrat
Primary Election, but was most likely concerned that if he lost to
Mamdani, he would not have been able to run in the General Election, and
would have had to back either Mamdani, or a Republican Candidate, and
in each scenario, he would not have been happy with whomever he put his
support behind.
Andrew
Cuomo as a Moderate Democrat could have won the 2025 New York Mayoral General
Election, but Cuomo never gets the opportunity to run as a Moderate
Democrat because he did win the Democrat Primary, and
therefore would have been unable to use the name Moderate Democrat in
the General Election, and therein resides the reason why the U.S. has a
growing level of Political Divisiveness, cluster groups are able to
dominate over true consensus.
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