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That’s true. Presidential elections are a little different given the primaries are technically only for convention delegates bound only for the first vote. There’s also instances where the party picks in the face of a candidate death before the primary or general, such as in Minnesota in 2002.

This was a big development in US politics that happened more or less due to fallout from the Vietnam War. Look at the map of the 1968 Democratic primaries and 1972 Democratic primaries. After the catastrophe that was 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago—driven by the drama around LBJ’s late departure, Hubert Humphrey being despicable, and the hope and ultimate assassination of RFK, and the lack of responsiveness to the anti-war movement, there was a serious push to move the process from one controlled almost entirely by party officials to a more democratic, if still party-official-directed process.

Mamdani won the primary election. In the US parties don't choose their candidates for elections (in b4 "but superdelegates!") like you see in other electoral systems where an internal party committee selects a candidate list. So this election was determining who was going to be the Democratic candidate for the actual election.

But New York has some weird fusion laws that allow people to run on multiple party lines so Cuomo, even though he lost the Democratic nomination, can still run in the general election.

This, right here, is the hill I will die on. Imperial/US customary unit divisions are superior to metric decimalization.

Hello, generic cousin

"I wouldn't call it funny, per se, but I remember it..."

I've definitely had moments where I found myself in some random r/ and realized I wasn't sure if this was bot spam or actual humans. It's pretty dissociating to actually fully internalize the dead Internet theory.

This is the same guy.

Haven’t thought about that movie in forever

Think about the two blocks on the right of the side view forming the step in the middle row. What’s behind them? Are you assuming it’s the full truck width of three? How do you know it isn’t a bit of a “false front” and it’s only one deep, or two? What if one is three “deep” and the only is only one? What about the center? Maybe it’s “hollow” on the inside?

New England, weed whackers here too.

Is that supposed to be Elastigirl?

Not saying this doesn’t suck, but it is also a soft paywall dodge for sites like WaPo.

Minesweeper.

Simple, endlessly playable.

This just means either the guy who retired or the new CEO will become governor and then senator from Florida like Rick Scott.