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Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral RaceExit Poll Analysis: Original New Yorkers vs. NewcomersConclusion: Mamdani’s victory was driven by newcomers and young voters, while native-born and long-time New Yorkers largely rejected the socialist candidate. Voter Group% for Mamdani% for CuomoImplicationLived in NYC <10 years (newcomers)81%19%Core base – recent arrivals drove his winLived >10 years but not NYC-born55%45%Moderate support from longer-term transplantsBorn in New York City (original New Yorkers)38%49%Rejected Mamdani – native-born preferred CuomoFirst-time mayoral voters66%34%New/transient voters skewed heavily leftRepeat mayoral voters47%53%Established voters leaned against MamdaniBottom line:Mamdani did not win because native or long-time New Yorkers wanted socialism — he won despite...

If billionaire-backed “Islamo-socialist” Mamdani can’t crush it after showering voters with freebies, then even a win is really a loss. Because when you’ve got unlimited money, media cover, and populist giveaways on your side, anything short of a landslide exposes weakness—not strength. It proves the hype doesn’t match the grassroots.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi says that there will be no further privatization of state-owned companies. … Egypt privatized key companies in the 1990s under Mubarak, but the program stalled in recent years. Critics say the sales were tainted by corruption. …

"It is a profound truth," declared the British Socialist Party in a 1911 manifesto, "that Socialism is the natural enemy of religion." Not the least of the oddities in the subsequent history of progressive politics is that today it has become the principal vehicle in the West for Islamist goals and policies. Caroline Lucas, a member of the Green Party faction in the European Parliament, is a longtime activist in anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmentalist causes, and not someone likely to describe herself as an anti-feminist. Yet in June 2004, she joined British MPs Fiona Mactaggart of Labor and Sarah Teather...