Today’s Democratic Party primary will most likely decide who will be the next mayor of New York City. If polls are correct, it is a two-person race between former governor Andrew Cuomo and State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. The race has been getting tighter in recent weeks. The city’s arcane ranked-choice voting rules add a layer of unpredictability to the results. Cuomo appears to be the favorite to win, leading many to wonder how a man who resigned as governor under a cloud of scandal fewer than four years ago now finds himself favored to become the next mayor of New ...