Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job?

• porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What do you mean?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Technically, he’s in office because he won an election. But he did that by being in the pocket of numerous lobbies and in the good graces of the Democrats’ campaign operation. If you don’t do those things, your odds of winning are vanishingly small. So he’s borderline untouchable.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, the other Democrat candidates withdrew and no other parties are popular:

      ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_…

      I would expect lobbies to play a decent part in this but I’m not sure I’ve seen the mechanics fleshed out.

      As a voter in New York, what are the options coming up to the next election that help remove him and impede the far right groups?

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How did Mamdani take NYC against a filthy-rich opponent (Cuomo) with literal billionaires and the national conservative machine standing against him?

      AOC was a bartender and took her House seat, untouchable now.

      Obama was a nobody from Illinois. People heard him speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (me included!) and jumped onboard.

      Clinton took the Presidency from being an unheard of governor of a hick state nobody cared about. And a democrat of that state no less!

      They all did it without big money, against wealthier opponents and won by talking to their people and listening. The formula works.

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