Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 55. Sunrise is 6:35 and sunset is 4:40 for 10 hours 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1947, Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC television.
I’ll not suggest that I know what led to victory in the New York City mayoral race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. That’s best left to those who study New York politics closely and carefully. And yet, and yet, even this libertarian blogger in Whitewater can suggest what didn’t make a difference in the race. This from August:
One can be quite confident that Cuomo’s post on X about his father and his grandmother made no difference whatever in the outcome. There’s no campaign polling or post-campaign vote analysis that points to this Cuomo post as an influence in the electoral outcome because (1) it wasn’t an influence, and (2) no New York analyst would be so addled to think it might have been an influence. This social media post was only important in the entitled space between Cuomo’s ears.
But his late father? His late grandmother? No one anywhere cares about parentage, of all things, with so many other pressing daily concerns. It’s the present that matters: what has the candidate done, what does the candidate believe, and what does he hope to accomplish? (There’s also something oblivious about Andrew Cuomo thinking someone else looks tired. Cuomo could sleep for a week and still look tired.)
Father and grandmother? Oh, my.
All across America, in these turbulent times, people look to the actions of the candidate, in our time.
Cuomo futilely tried a bit of DYKWIA family history.
To that effort, residents of towns big and small will answer the same way: IDGAF.
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