Bring the big leagues to Mexico City

Tomorrow is Election Day! You can find my latest take on the New York mayoral race here, and then Eli’s stories on Virginia here and New Jersey here.

Since my article was published, AtlasIntel, Silver Bulletin’s highest-rated pollster, released a survey showing Zohran Mandani with only a 7-point lead over Andrew Cuomo in New York. The average of all surveys conducted since Oct. 22 is Mamdani +14.6, however. There isn’t consistent movement toward either candidate, and Mamdani’s lead in other polls is as large as 26 points. So I don’t think anything major has changed — other than that some pollsters could have egg on their faces depending on the outcome. A Cuomo win wouldn’t be entirely unprecedented, since NYC mayoral polling has not been especially accurate. But it would be a significant upset.

Whatever happens, Eli and I will have a Substack Live chat about the outcomes with Ross Barkan of Political Currents at noon on Wednesday. We’re also hoping to get SBSQ back on schedule to post in the early part of the month, which means it should run late this week or early next week. You can submit questions for SBSQ #26 in the comment thread to edition #25. But for today, you’re getting something a little different.

You probably don’t need me to tell you that Mexico City, which I visited last month, is a bustling and vibrant metropolis: great food, excellent museums, interesting architecture, and fun people-watching. I like pretty much everything about it except the altitude and traffic.1 There’s a reason more and more U.S. expats are moving there, sometimes to the annoyance of the local population.

And although it’s probably not the first thing most tourists notice, there’s a ubiquity of American sports logos in Mexico: unis, caps, even promotions at fast food restaurants. At the small airport I visited in Oaxaca, one guy even had a Blue Jays jersey on and an anxious look on his face which suggested he was white-knuckling it to make his connection on time to arrive in Toronto for Game 3 of the World Series that night.

I hope that fan will someday be able to see a World Series game in Ciudad de