Looks as though NYC voters are going to get it, good and hard

Mamdani holds commanding lead as first-round results trickle in, moods shifts within Cuomo campaign

According to Google, estimated total turnout today is expected to be 27% of all registered NYC Democrat voters, so 73% of them are perfectly happy to let someone else choose their mayor. Republican voters comprise 35% of the total number and have no vote in today’s primary and thus no choice in this fall’s election. This can only be good news for Florida and CT real estate sales.

Update after reflecting on this: Maybe not so good for Connecticut. The state’s always benefited from being slightly more hospitable to its citizens than its neighbor, although that differential has been eroding since we voted in an income tax, but a large part of the wealth in lower Fairfield county is tied to NYC’s financial industry. What if the exodus from Wall Street, already well underway, accelerates, and what if — horrors! — the refugees don’t move over the border but abandon this expensive hellhole for more accomodating states to our south and west?

Bummer.