Polls

NY Post -   Zohran Mamdani’s lead over Andrew Cuomo has dropped to just 7 points in a new shocking poll in the mayor’s race – giving him the smallest edge he has held in any survey since July. 

A new Atlas Intel survey has Mamdani leading the field with 41%, but by a far narrower margin than he has in other recent polls. It has the former New York governor, who is running as an independent, climbing by leaps and bounds to 34%.

Axios -  Socialism beats capitalism among U.S. college students, Axios' Erica Pandey and Margaret Talev write from a new Axios-Generation Lab poll.

• 67% of survey respondents say they hold a positive or neutral association with the word "socialism," compared with 40% with the word "capitalism."

The survey reveals Gen Z's growing disillusionment with capitalism — fueled by high inflation, surging health care and housing costs, and the rising influence of billionaires in politics, tech and media. Negative views of capitalism handily outweigh those of socialism: 53% v. 23%...

47% of Democratic respondents and 31% of independents — but just 5% of Republicans — react positively to socialism.

• 45% of Republicans, but just 17% of independents and 7% of Democrats, have positive reactions to capitalism.   MORE