Early voting kicked off with a bang, not a whimper in New York City with nearly 300,000 voters hitting the polls across the first four days to cast their ballots in the mayoral race.

With little data available at this stage and a week to go until Election Day, drawing conclusions from the numbers is a bit like reading tea leaves: limited and easily twisted to fit an agenda. Older voters do appear to have led the charge so far, according to an analysis from Gothamist that found New Yorkers over 55 made up slightly more than 51% of turnout in the first four days of early voting. The largest single share of the vote came from voters 65 to 74. That's a significant shift from the Democratic primary where younger voters dominated early voting .

Cuomo’s camp has taken the engagement as

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