If polls are to be believed, Zohran Mamdani is likely to win the mayoralty of New York City this November. An October 9 Quinnipiac University survey taken after Mayor Eric Adams dropped from the race shows Mamdani is up 13 points over his nearest competitor, disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo.

Despite his youth and executive inexperience, Mamdani has all the advantages — a better ground game with tens of thousands of volunteers , a better social media campaign driven by young activists with an irreverent style , more favorable national and international media coverage, as much as four times more campaign cash on hand than Cuomo, a spate of high-profile endorsements (although not the leading officials of his own party), and other strengths.

Yet despite these electoral advantag

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