While attention is on the new mayor’s revocation of pro-Israel executive orders, analysis reveals age and income shaped the Jewish vote more than ethnicity, religion, or support for Israel
What stands out here is how closely Jewish voting patterns mirrored the city as a whole. Mamdani didn’t “lose the Jewish vote”; he won younger, renter, and lower-income voters—Jewish and non-Jewish alike—and lost older, wealthier homeowners. That’s not a failure of coalition politics; it’s the emergence of a different one. If anything, the data suggests that future fights won’t be about identity, but about whether New York remains governed by oligarch enclaves or by the people who actually live and work in the city.
I am a 75 year old, long time synagogue member who enthusiastically voted for Mayor Mamdani in the Primary and General Elections. I cheered when he won. I live in the coop cited in this post: Morningside Gardens which has a Community Room named to honor a former resident: Thurgood Marshall. Morningside Heights is the neighborhood where Mamdani grew up and over indexed votes for Mamdani vs Cuomo. In his January 1st speech he called out a local shop: Coronet Pizza.
Interesting, this is almost exactly what happened in LaGuardia's first election in 1933. The Jewish vote supposedly made a decisive, dramatic lunge because of an anti-semitism scandal against McKee, but Arthur Mann, employing a very similar method of comparing EDs, showed persuasively that the Jewish vote almost exactly mirrored the citywide vote. The class divisions were more numerous, age didn't matter, creed did (Jewish upper class Republican goo-goos and socialists), but the final result is surprisingly similar, and the widespread and enduring opinion is similarly wrong.
All this is in the 2nd volume of Arthur Mann's biography, _LaGuardia Comes to Power, 1933_, p. 138 to the end of the chapter. The anti-semitism brouhaha is pp. 112-115. Comments on method that are similar to yours are in the beginning of the chapter.
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Kinda curious, how would an approve/disapprove poll of these voters go on Netanyahu.
Any bets not just that the Mossad is already busily implementing a smear campaign, but also has an assassination plot ready to go, just waiting for Trump's okay (obviously Netanyahu already signed on).
my niece, born & raised in brooklyn and among the 104,000+ activists who made mamdani mayor, says: "i dont know a single jewish person, my age or older, who did not vote for mamdani.“
[t]his generation will use 'common sense‘, i.e. will focus on strengthening community and communities rather than cater mostly to the insatiably greedy, disruptive, self-centered few, and might, just in time before their complete takeover, fix what we, the generation before them, failed to prevent.
that, at least, is my faint [naive?] hope while i realize the stunning speed at which the leaders of my EU country work twd. turning it into "europe’s biggest military power!“ - with billions of euros already spent on US-made arms [and millions of euros’ worth of weapons made in my country still flowing to israel, alas].
This was a very good synopsis of voting patterns in NYC. Given the highly charged protest in NYC's College campuses, College educated voters didn't seem to enter the statistics. This is where pro-Palestinian sentiment took place. The criticism of Israel and Zionism as anti-semitism is a red herring. Voters who are college educated do not see that as an issue. The issue for them had been the harsh, genocidal treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Mamdani as a Social Democrat
was true to his beliefs. I admire him for that even though I am a Jew. This Israeli administration,
led by Netanyahu is too self-serving and dependent on the ultra- religious right to properly represent the Israeli population. Unfortunately, right-wingers in NYC don't see that.
What stands out here is how closely Jewish voting patterns mirrored the city as a whole. Mamdani didn’t “lose the Jewish vote”; he won younger, renter, and lower-income voters—Jewish and non-Jewish alike—and lost older, wealthier homeowners. That’s not a failure of coalition politics; it’s the emergence of a different one. If anything, the data suggests that future fights won’t be about identity, but about whether New York remains governed by oligarch enclaves or by the people who actually live and work in the city.
The enterprise press wouldn't last a day if they had to do this level of actual reporting. Truth has never been kind to their bottom line.
I am a 75 year old, long time synagogue member who enthusiastically voted for Mayor Mamdani in the Primary and General Elections. I cheered when he won. I live in the coop cited in this post: Morningside Gardens which has a Community Room named to honor a former resident: Thurgood Marshall. Morningside Heights is the neighborhood where Mamdani grew up and over indexed votes for Mamdani vs Cuomo. In his January 1st speech he called out a local shop: Coronet Pizza.
I hope Mamdani has the best security, at all times! May he keep up the good work!
Interesting, this is almost exactly what happened in LaGuardia's first election in 1933. The Jewish vote supposedly made a decisive, dramatic lunge because of an anti-semitism scandal against McKee, but Arthur Mann, employing a very similar method of comparing EDs, showed persuasively that the Jewish vote almost exactly mirrored the citywide vote. The class divisions were more numerous, age didn't matter, creed did (Jewish upper class Republican goo-goos and socialists), but the final result is surprisingly similar, and the widespread and enduring opinion is similarly wrong.
All this is in the 2nd volume of Arthur Mann's biography, _LaGuardia Comes to Power, 1933_, p. 138 to the end of the chapter. The anti-semitism brouhaha is pp. 112-115. Comments on method that are similar to yours are in the beginning of the chapter.
It seems that New Yorkers want a fresh new start and Mamdani touched that longing.
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The religion, skin color, sexual indentity, etc. Don't bring trouble
It's the decisions of the leaders
Kinda curious, how would an approve/disapprove poll of these voters go on Netanyahu.
Any bets not just that the Mossad is already busily implementing a smear campaign, but also has an assassination plot ready to go, just waiting for Trump's okay (obviously Netanyahu already signed on).
my niece, born & raised in brooklyn and among the 104,000+ activists who made mamdani mayor, says: "i dont know a single jewish person, my age or older, who did not vote for mamdani.“
[t]his generation will use 'common sense‘, i.e. will focus on strengthening community and communities rather than cater mostly to the insatiably greedy, disruptive, self-centered few, and might, just in time before their complete takeover, fix what we, the generation before them, failed to prevent.
that, at least, is my faint [naive?] hope while i realize the stunning speed at which the leaders of my EU country work twd. turning it into "europe’s biggest military power!“ - with billions of euros already spent on US-made arms [and millions of euros’ worth of weapons made in my country still flowing to israel, alas].
This was a very good synopsis of voting patterns in NYC. Given the highly charged protest in NYC's College campuses, College educated voters didn't seem to enter the statistics. This is where pro-Palestinian sentiment took place. The criticism of Israel and Zionism as anti-semitism is a red herring. Voters who are college educated do not see that as an issue. The issue for them had been the harsh, genocidal treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Mamdani as a Social Democrat
was true to his beliefs. I admire him for that even though I am a Jew. This Israeli administration,
led by Netanyahu is too self-serving and dependent on the ultra- religious right to properly represent the Israeli population. Unfortunately, right-wingers in NYC don't see that.