and our urban/inner suburban yuppie liberals are somehow even more checked out of state politics than low-income urban POC, though that is slowly changing (2025 did see a relative turnout surge)
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yuppie liberals are a vital part of the anti-machine coalition, but they prob won't be totally at its helm, probably playing second fiddle to disaffected minority voters it is basically the question of baraka or fulop, and the 2025 primary results seemed to show baraka was the more effective one
aug 27, 2025, 2:33 am • 4 0 • view
i think baraka with fulop fundraising would've beaten sherill
aug 27, 2025, 2:34 am • 3 0 • view
oh I agree but when it comes to answering "why are things this bad?" the fact that the single most anti-machine demo just does not vote very much is definitely up there
aug 27, 2025, 2:37 am • 6 0 • view
it does make the state senate/assembly primary challenges somewhat obvious, but it does make the path to an actual statewide primary win extremely difficult
aug 27, 2025, 2:42 am • 5 0 • view
New Jersey 2025 is NYC 2018 part twenty two
aug 27, 2025, 2:45 am • 3 0 • view
wow!
aug 27, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
this means the anti-machine firebrand statewide candidate that everybody likes is in 2033 help
aug 27, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
I mean Mikie got just 34% against a field of extremely mid opponents, I don't think statewide is as bad as we necessarily think
aug 27, 2025, 2:43 am • 4 0 • view
you're prob right sherill + gottheimer + sweeney is 52.7%, which does show a path in a more consolidated field
aug 27, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
Baraka was the least flawed of her opponents, and he was relatively broke and did not do much retail campaigning compared to anyone but Mikie
aug 27, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 0 • view