It’s weird to me that there are parties associated with Mayoral candidates. Is this true for all cities in Murca?
The majority of large cities have “non-partisan” mayoral elections in the US. But most politicians are still going to be members of parties. About 2/3 of the 100 largest cities have mayors affiliated with the Democratic party, since support for Democrats is much stronger in cities than in rural areas. Some states, such as Florida and Texas, have large cities with Republican mayors, but northern cities usually elect mayors who are Democrats. In partisan mayoral elections, the parties hold primaries and voters select the candidate they want their party to endorse. In cities with large Democratic majorities that also hold partisan elections, the primary is functionally more like a general election. So basically different cities function differently, but mayoral candidates are still going to have ideologies that align them with parties, and those ideologies usually have local, not just national, impact. And informed voters will still want to know those ideologies.
Not all. The mayor of Dallas does not represent a party. Which made it curious when the current mayor switched from a Democrat to a Republican.
So they can run as independents but typically they’re in some party or other. So strange to me since they should be locally-focused.
No but kind of yes, there are partisan elections and non partisan elections. The Hatch Act (which applies to every federal employee including a letter carrier) states they cannot be involved in any partisan elections. Which currently means almost every election now.
Non partisan elections used to be much more common in the past, but the major parties over the years (mostly Republicans) pushed it to where there are very few non partisan elections. Even school committee seat elections in my town are partisan, and because of that my local letter carrier couldn’t participate even with their massive involvement in the community.
Wait, do you mean the postal workers can’t campaign for someone or they can’t vote? Where is the line between participating and influencing?
Also I see endorsements all the time, are none of those endorsers federal employees?
They can’t do pretty much most things except vote if the election is partisan.
The hatch act doesn’t really make sense nowadays in our modern world with social media and what not.
Yes, effectively every office from Sheriff to even judges. If there is an election the candidates list their party affiliation. Sometimes resulting in funny stuff like this: https://apnews.com/article/e1580367018108b09755dfb994395c0a
Lol, thanks for sharing that
Near me, city council positions are all at-large, and political affiliations, if any, aren’t mentioned anywhere, not in promotional materials or on campaign websites.
Now do this for all Democratic primaries.
He has vowed to run as an independent so he could still win, because the general election will not be ranked choice.
Yeah, but I don’t see Cuomo winning over Mamdani. Mamdani beat Cuomo on first round voting and likely was going to pick up many second+ round votes.
The only way Cuomo wins is if he can steal a lot of Adams’s votes, which I doubt.
If Mamdani loses, there’s a possibility that he could run on the Working Families Party line in the general election — though Gripper said the New York WFP has not decided whether they’ll run a candidate on their line in the general election and will make a decision after the final primary results come in.
Please do this if it comes to it.
No need. Zohran killed it, he probably wins by double digits in round 2
