Irvine511
Blue Crack Supplier
Progressive legislation requires the votes, and getting the votes requires running candidates with real vision. Are you going to defend Andrew Cuomo because of some vague notion of pragmatism?
progressive legislation requires winning elections. it wasn't long ago that NY had a Republican governor. a comparatively moderate one, but Manhattan and Brooklyn are not all of New York. i'm going to defend Cuomo based on his ability to win elections. there's also his legislation on same-sex marriage, gun control, and college tuition. i understand that we might want more, and we might want more now, but sometimes small steps must be taken at first.
if Cynthia Nixon proves herself a capable candidate and can unseat Andrew Cuomo and then win a statewide election, more power to her, and i will be happy about that because, yay, it's still a Democrat.
for now, it seems that the support her candidacy is receiving is because not only does she ride the subway but there are some people out there who don't like Andrew Cuomo (who is obviously looking at 2020). i'm fairly certain that these same people will like a Republican governor even less, but perhaps not? perhaps it would be more fun for Cynthia Nixon to run against a moderate Republican and lose?
there are people in here far more knowledgable about NY state politics than i, so i don't have too much more to offer than these cursory observations. so we'll wait and see. but the idea of always primarying from the Left seems like a great way to lose the suburban voters (the people who actually do vote, rather than the ones we keep wishing would) that 2018 and 2020 are going to be all about.
and when 2020 comes around, we're going to be told just what a progressive liberal Cuomo is in the minds of swing voters across the rust belt (which is what upstate NY often looks like). places like Elmira are as shattered as any town along the Ohio river.
The difference between Oprah Winfrey as a candidate and Cynthia Nixon as a candidate is very simple: one has laid out a platform of things they stand for, and one has not.
another difference is that Oprah isn't running for anything.
I also think the fact that the moderate wing of the party jumped onboard with Winfrey and has been tsk-tsking Nixon speaks volumes.
you're doing the Nick strawman thing here -- "people i wish to differentiate myself from are saying certain things" -- no one i know wants Oprah to run for anything, pointing out that celebrity isn't a qualification for office.
i have no desire for an Oprah candidacy.