Cuomo paid roughly $48 for every vote he got, where Zephyr paid roughly $2.70... If Zephyr had had a bit more money, she could have easily won... Cuomo... will govern for another four years, or until he is indicted. But he will not hold another elected office, because he has proven himself a very good machine boss but a very bad candidate... Zephyr won Albany County, and people there know him best... Teachout is a star. The New York establishment ignored her at first, but was utterly charmed by her by the end of the campaign... Zephyr drew her strongest—but not only—support from white liberals from the ages of 30–45 years. This is the Occupy Wall Street demographic. It is teachers, librarians, fracktivists, techies, and publishers. It is also heavily networked and organized. Some Cuomo insiders were making fun of the fact that Teachout couldn’t draw big crowds, while Cuomo could. But this is because Cuomo’s machine organizes constituencies in union halls, whereas Teachout’s are on listservs and on Twitter. It’s just a different frame of reference, union organizers organize at union halls, fracktivists organize on listservs... Zephyr often said she is an old school Democrat. What she meant is not just that she backs more funding for schools, but that she believes in a redesigned relationship between powerful private actors and the state similar to the one implemented by FDR. https://medium/@matthewstoller/5-reasons-for-the-zephyr-teachout-phenomenon-and-5-reasons-andrew-cuomo-will-still-be-governor-8eeb3fc1ec22
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