In June, he was at 58%.
Nice.
Nice.
Sorry for the downvote, but it made the top two comments at 6 and 9
Nice.
Niccce.
NOICE
Nice!
Hmm so strange how you get high approval ratings when your policies are not against the people.
Hmmm 🤔
Except it’s only for NYC, for the rest of the state his approval ratings are actually going down. That’s common though. Urban liberal areas usually think positively of liberal politicians, but when you add in rural areas, their approval ratings drop dramtically. Basically nothing has changed, even with someone as well liked as Mamdani.
Lulz.
Wow, this place really IS like Reddit!
The rest of the state that he is the mayor of…
Yes, we all know that he is the mayor of NYC, not the governor of NY. However the mayor of NYC is often seen as wielding as much power as the governor, hence why there are always comparisons, and they are valid when looking at larger approval ratings of policies. If this was some DSA mayor of a small city in the middle of nowhere, there wouldn’t even be a news story about it. Hell, there are many very liberal mayors in California, and they are hardly talked about, for the exact same reason.
Ok but why should he care about people who are literally not his constituents. Imo his approval rating with irrelevant people going down is a good sign: it means the mayor of NYC is actually paying attention and caring about NYC for once.
Wait till you hear Israelis opinion about him!
I’m not American and I love
presidentmayor Mamdani“Struggles with state” is such a weird talking point. He’s a mayor, not a state rep.
It’s interesting to see the lengths that established media are going to in order to “both sides” this political opinion that is obviously not a 50/50 split.
The headline is, “Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state.”
Has any other New York mayor ever had this kind of approval rating? Maybe Giuliano immediately after 9/11 …
I sincerely doubt that most NYC residents give a rat’s ass about what other residents of their state think about the city’s mayor.
It’s a big talking point. Mayor of NYC is basically seen as wielding equivalent power to the state governor, so it’s a popular comparison, and shows that Memdani’s politics which work well for a urban liberal city don’t scale to state wide policies, which is quite common in the US. The real power and show that Dem politics are changing is if Memdani’s approval increases state wide and more DSA members win elections across the US in November. It seems like in very strong Dem districts this is possible, but in toss up, or weaker Dem districts, the centrists Dems are the ones that have been winning primaries.
shows that Memdani’s politics which work well for a urban liberal city don’t scale to state wide policies
It doesn’t show that at all. That’s like polling people in Florida about Mamdani and using it to claim that “his policies wouldn’t scale well to the country.” That’s utter nonsense.
Regardless of if he’s “seen as” wielding equivalent power to the governor, he factually, objectively, does not have the power to govern NY outside of the city. Therefore, nobody outside of the city is actually experiencing his policies firsthand.
Even then, a good policy can sometimes take time to actually produce results. To actually be able to claim his policies “don’t scale well” to the state level, we would first have to see what he would actually propose if he were governing at a state level, and then we would have to evaluate not only whether those policies are popular but whether they produce results. It’s complete and utter nonsense, absurdly premature to draw conclusions based off what some random person he’s not governing or necessarily trying to win over thinks of him, which is just based on whatever the media they consume says.
Yeah, it’s a big talking point, but it doesn’t make it any less weird. It’s not his job or his responsibility, and the biggest problem is like you said - He’s SEEN as wielding equivalent power. He’s doing a good job as mayor because he’s NOT trying to appeal to the rest of the state and is focusing on directly improving the lives of the people in NYC, as it should be.
Otherwise, why stop the polling at the state level? Why not poll all of New England? Why not poll Canada? They’re just as close by and have the exact same level of influence over and from him.
memdurble’s power
Fucking spell his name right
LOL, autocorrect is doing a terrible job today.
So are you!
What’s the traditional celebration for a moment like this?
“Nice.”
Look at that. It’s almost like the rest of the planet was right about social protections.
That’s around the same as Trump’s disapproval rating.
Ironic, given that even Donald Trump approves of Zohran Mamdani.
Well, he DID like him. For a while.
Trump likes winners. But if they make HIM look like a loser, not so much.
Zohran Mamdani is one of the most popular politicians in the country, atm.
In the world. He is globally popular
Yeah, and Trump is one of most unpopular. People compare the two and Trump looks bad in comparison and he hates that. So he badmouths Zohran now.
For anybody that doubts this, I looked it up. Some polls are more in the 55%-60% range, but there are also these:
Reuters/Ipsos (August 21–24): 65% disapprove and 33% approve.
American Research Group (August 15–19): 66% disapprove and 30% approve.I looked into it because I suspected it was more like 35% approve, 50% disapprove, leaving 15% fucking clueless somehow.
Link?
I used to follow the Gallup polls for this, because of the long time series and general reputability. But then it turned out they do not have a spine. Since then I always look at the aggregated results at https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin . Every poll has a significant margin of error (depending on sample size) and bias (depending on methodology), so aggregating them is generally a good idea.
Nate Silver is a known POS. I strongly suggest to avoid that. Here is one that lists them all: https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
ETA: https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/nate-silver-faces-backlash-for-pro-model-skewing/
Realclearpolitics is worse than Nate Silver. They’re openly conservative and manipulate their polling average by accepting only GOP internals not dem ones, which means their averages are super biased GOP.
Do you have sources on that? If so, who is a better option than both of them?
I mean the wikipedia page shows it’s “conservative”.
As for what sources to rely on instead. G Elliot Morris is the gold standard. But there are plenty of hobbyist websites that do just as well (if not better since include internals from both sides) as RCP.
For example: https://plusminus4.substack.com/p/2026-senate-polling-averages
There’s also the fivethirtyeight subreddit on reddit 🤢 which has all the polling nerds and that’s the best place to find resources and people who may know what they’re talking about. Unfortunately such a community hasn’t established itself on the thredi.
I vaguely remember something like that, thanks for the alternative. Direct link at https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
G. Elliott Morris used to build 538’s models, and now he does his own. There are Senate and House forecasts there too.
Why the hell is it so low. I’ve heard nothing but good news
'Merica
All those cops who live on Staten Island would be part of it, presumably
Screaming “hold the neighborhood, boys!” even as they themselves benefit
Republican base that only approves of an R next to their name, regardless of literally anything.
The 0.5% who have a pied-à-terre worth over $5 million, and the 30.5% who are just temporarily cash-constrained but surely will be buying a pied-à-terre worth over $5 million in the very near future.
Probably the same people who downvoted the posts celebrating Dolly Parton yesterday. Some people are just negative.
Trumps support rate is around 33% in most polls, so it seems there’s a 30-35% of the population who just hate good things and support shitty evil instead.
That is the 30% that hasn’t personally felt the negative consequences of trump strongly enough to change their minds.
It’s almost impossible to get over 60% of Americans to agree on anything.
69% approval rating in the US is probably the equivalent of high 80s or low 90s in most of the world.
I hear Kim Jong Un has over 90% approval rating. Who else?
Some people actually like exploiting poor people and dislike politicians that make it difficult for them.
I’m a New Yorker, so let me give you my perspective.
Donald Trump fucked over everyone in New York. He called for the lynching of some young Black men, and then refused to admit he was wrong when they were all exonerated. He pissed off the Manhattan elites when he razed a famous landmark after promising to preserve it. He enraged the art world when he built an ugly hotel in SoHo. He personally destroyed a great summer football league. He was seen eating pizza with a knife and fork.
Despite these many insults to the commonwealth, he still got votes.
There will always be a portion of the population that goes fascist during economic decay, the sort of decay that is inevitable with capitalism. They will be throughly propagandized and may never wake up and see the light of reason. A liberal democracy cannot stop a determined fascist movement with capitalist backing with conventional means. They will use and abuse existing political levers to gain total power.
The only thing that will stop them is turning the tables on them via mass resistance of those who have gained class consciousness. They will need to be defeated and suppressed, and barred from having any further political power or platform to spread their toxic ideas.
It might also have to do with the authoritarian personality types YouTube
Its so rare for approval to climb after getting in office… Just proves that actually doing shit is feasible alternative to whatever the establishment has been up to for the best forever.
Who would have thought that doing your job could be so popular?
It helps that every other fucker is just screwing things up in their own particular favor
