By Sherry Knight Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--June 28, 2025

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Much has already been written about Zohran Mamdani’s primary election “win” in the New York City mayoral race on June 24, but many of us who follow American politics are still scratching our heads as to how a loud, brash Socialist Democrat was able to do that considering he was running against Andrew Cuomo, a well-known, former New York governor.

However, it is possible the outcome may have been helped along by the fact that only one out of three registered Democrats voted in the primary and that the voting was conducted by ranked choice. Ranked choice voting in elections in the United States is still a relatively new idea, and it makes it much harder for pollsters or pundits to predict outcomes.

Mamdani, who has literally no praiseworthy career or political credentials, comes across as energetic and self-confident, but he has, in my opinion, no practical ideas for how to improve quality of life for the citizens of New York City. While his broad political platform calls for inclusiveness, social justice, and sustainability, the only specific things he advocates for include free childcare, free bus rides, city-run grocery stores, defunding the police, and higher........

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