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 been allowed to run as a Moderate Democrat Candidate in the New York City General Election, Andrew Cuomo would have won.
However, Laws are in place that protect both the Republican brand, and the Democrat Brand, so whomever wins the Republican Primary Election and the Democrat Primary Election is the only candidate 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 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 runs as a Moderate Democrat, and who would perform much better in the General Election once Republicans and Independents can also vote, never gets 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 would have propelled Andrew Cuomo 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 to overcome in the General Election.
A Democrat most likely would not vote for a Moderate Party Candidate since it might mean Republican Moderate and a Democrat Voter would already have their own Democrat 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 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 mid term Elections; even if true, Mamdani's 2025 Mayoral Victory in New York allows the mainstream media to chortle over the Mandani Mayoral Revolution that was built on a loophole that ironically, allows Democrats to attempt to fix the same problems they created themselves while simultaneously bolstering more Political Divisiveness.
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 wins the 2025 New York Mayoral General Election, but Cuomo never gets the opportunity to run as a Moderate Democrat because he would not have won the Democrat Primary, and therefore would not have been able 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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