In the latest New York City elections, integrity was a hot topic. When Zohran Mamdani told Andrew Cuomo “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” he was echoing what many voters instinctively felt. Politicians, and people, can compensate for other types of weaknesses, but they cannot do so for morality. Even if they do overlook moral weaknesses, voters feel torn about their choice and are dissatisfied. In the recent New York city mayoral elections, when voters picked Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani, they traded off morality for experience, or any number of other traits they believed Cuomo had and Mamdani lacked. Yet, they felt dissatisfied with their choice.
A doctoral student at Columbia, Joseph Lee, and I surveyed 368 voters in the New York City Mayoral election over a period of multiple days starting with early voting and ending the day of the election, as th
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