Ed Kilgore
Political Columnist at New York Magazine
Managing Editor at Democratic Strategist
Veteran political analyst; worked for 3 governors, a senator & a DC think tank; now columnist for New York Magazine. Observant Christian. Georgia Bulldog.
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1 day ago |
thedemocraticstrategist.org | Ed Kilgore
One of the reasons Zohran Mamdani’s smashing victory yesterday created such a sensation is that public polls (overall) did a poor job of predicting the size and shape of both his and Andrew Cuomo’s coalitions in the Democratic mayoral primary. An average of these polls prepared by Race to the WH showed Cuomo with 36.4 percent of first-choice ballots and Mamdani with 28.6 percent.
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1 day ago |
nymag.com | Ed Kilgore
It's been over seven months since the 2024 presidential election, and you might assume everything there is to be said about it has already been said, perhaps redundantly. But the data we had on the components of the electorate that fed Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris was pretty rough in November and has grown steadily more reliable. Now (minor tweaks notwithstanding), we may have something like the final word.
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1 day ago |
nymag.com | Ed Kilgore
The creaking legislative machine congressional Republicans are using to enact Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is getting really noisy and inefficient as it clanks toward a self-imposed July 4 deadline. The math doesn't really add up anymore. There's a host of provisions, growing each day, that various Republicans swear they cannot support (Democrats are entirely irrelevant to the process).
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2 days ago |
thedemocraticstrategist.org | Ed Kilgore
At New York, I wrote a post about Andrew Cuomo and the sort of faux-centrism I believe he represents–the week before the former governor went down to a shocking defeat in the New York Democratic mayoral primary. Maybe I was on to something….
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2 days ago |
nymag.com | Ed Kilgore
One of the reasons Zohran Mamdani's smashing victory yesterday created such a sensation is that public polls (overall) did a poor job of predicting the size and shape of both his and Andrew Cuomo's coalitions in the Democratic mayoral primary. An average of these polls prepared by Race to the WH showed Cuomo with 36.4 percent of first-choice ballots and Mamdani with 28.6 percent.
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Didn't see this coming: https://t.co/BubplebSVu
I probably read as many William F. Buckley columns and watched as many episodes of Firing Line back in the day as most anyone on X. So here's my two bits on the idea that WFB was a Trump precursor: https://t.co/fw4lVKXJ9H
All the talk of Radical Left judges thwarting Trump's agenda misses the fact that he could have pursued all his policy objectives without confronting the judiciary. https://t.co/NJeUwAZNv0