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IIRC, after all the rounds of ranked choice last time, Adams won by less than 1%

I think the bigger factor in him winning was the constant crime screaming that every newspaper was doing all the time which people had not gotten quite as desensitized to

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Mamdani's campaign was also a great way of reinforcing and educating people on how the ranked choice voting works. I feel like one of the barriers to voting is some people who've never done it before might think it's more complicated or confusing than it is (where to go, how to register, how ranked choice itself works etc.)

By mobilizing so many people to vote I think he's guarunteed that a lot more people will vote generally now, which is hugely valuable.

@blogdiva more like the anti defamation league

@blogdiva When can we have him for president…. We want bread and roses too.

@blogdiva you have to follow @emilylowan - just won leadership of the BC Greens age 25, with 2 MLAs holding an NDP gov in power, she holds the keys, campaigned far left, won in a landslide .... there is hope

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Progressives are on our side. They don't pretend to care, like democrats do. They care.

@blogdiva Darn, that was excellent! Waaay gutsier than what I did when I ran for mayor!