Isn’t a lot of the explanation just that Mamdani has moderated quite a bit since 2020? He abandoned the “defund the police” stance, discarded the idea of abolishing the admissions test for the city’s magnet schools, and publicly embraced private housing construction playing a major role in reducing the city’s housing shortage. He’s still a very left-positioned candidate, but a big part of his campaign’s success story is “discard unpopular policy platform planks and work to expand the tent.”
Is NYC polling in a situation like this any good? Just for the most obvious issue, do haredi communities answer polls? Of course this can’t explain the polling swing over the last month
Isn’t a lot of the explanation just that Mamdani has moderated quite a bit since 2020? He abandoned the “defund the police” stance, discarded the idea of abolishing the admissions test for the city’s magnet schools, and publicly embraced private housing construction playing a major role in reducing the city’s housing shortage. He’s still a very left-positioned candidate, but a big part of his campaign’s success story is “discard unpopular policy platform planks and work to expand the tent.”
Is NYC polling in a situation like this any good? Just for the most obvious issue, do haredi communities answer polls? Of course this can’t explain the polling swing over the last month