The 103-ballot convention was in 1924, not 1928, where Smith was nominated on the first ballot. In 1924, there were two strong candidates - Smith, and William McAdoo. At first, the party required 2/3 of the delegates to nominate someone, but, if Wikipedia is to be believed, it changed after the 60th ballot to a majority. When it became obvious after the 100th or so ballot that neither would be acceptable to the other side, they agreed on a compromise candidate, John W. Davis.
IMHO he doesn’t look especially dark skinned. Based the photo on his wikipedia page, I’d have guessed him to be a white man, probably of Mediterranean (Spanish, Italian, Greek, etc.) descent, but also possibly of French or English descent (the latter I admit is mostly because he has some mild rosacea in his photo). In actuality he is of Punjabi Indian descent (yes, he was born in Uganda, but he descends from immigrants who moved to Uganda from India). Looking at google images of Punjabi people, many of them have a physical appearance that can, IMHO, be considered white, so he isn’t especially unusual in that regard either.
Yes, I agree. And not to sound gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that) - good looking. When’s the last time NYC had a good looking mayor? (rhetorical).
Yet the Republicans say he’s not only a communist, but has terrorist ties and I guess the naturalization document mis-check mentioned up thread has them wanting to cancel his citiizenship, win and deport him.
“Dark-skinned” isn’t just about skin color. By the standards of American racists, he’s non-white, and would be no matter what his actual melanin levels.
Can’t speak to looks, but he’ll be NYC’s first bearded mayor since 1913.
Ed Koch could pull. He pulled. That’s all I’m saying.
I just had the mean thought of how there’s some people you could troll to the effect that this makes him more “Aryan” than them.
Gaynor was also good looking. 
But i didn’t know anything about any NYC majors except recent ones.
I’m cautiously optimistic that Mamdani is a good enough politician that he’ll be able to work with the various other power centers in NY and do a decent job.
Well, if the MAGAts can ignore the 25th amendment why can’t Mamdani ignore Article 2?* We used to be a rule of law country but are no longer.
*Other than lacking an R after his name.
I dont see how they are ignoring that. Sec 4 has never happened.
I don’t envy Mamdani the huge magnifying glass he’s under, and will be for years.
Yeah. Larry Tate from Bewitched and Tariq Aziz could be brothers, but one is a white-bread American and the other an expletive-foreigner
Mamdani’s already in hot water! /sarcasm
I can’t believe Newsweek is indulging this kind of clickbait nonsense. And that people really don’t know what Arabic numerals are in real life. I guess I’m naïve.
TBF, the tweet they cited is evidence that certain people are, and it’s exactly the people you’d expect;
“BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals,” one post on X from member of the West Virginia House of Delegates Derrick Evans read. Evans was also as part of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
A 1/6er with a tenuous grasp on reality? Whodathunkit?
Arabic numerals are only a prelude to the terrorist math of Al-Gebra. I gotta laugh to keep from crying.
Newsweek, like Readers’s Digest, has really gone down the toilet in the past 20 years.
The Arabic numerals gag was funny the first time someone used it years ago but by now isn’t it kind of cringey. “Yeah, yeah, average voter = stupid. Hur hur hur.” Though I do suppose there’s always someone who has never heard of it.
That was a fact-checking article that de-bunked the bogus tweets etc. In other words- responsible journalism.
Eh, dihydrogen monoxide under the bridge.