Obviously whenever a president of a political party opposite of your is elected, you can expect higher voter turnout of supporters backing the opposite political party, especially in the midterms

Midterm results usually favor whatever party the current President doesn't belong to.

This comment is correct. Plus Trump was particularly polarizing which drove even more voters to the polls. The article even states this. To compare the two and make assumptions about Hochul or the Democratic Party is unfair. Yes, there are issues with the dem machine in New York, But this is all about minority party enthusiasm and turnout.

This doesn’t exactly check out if you look at Schumer’s percentages. He won by a much larger margin then Hochul did. This is trademark ticket splitting where it appears there were a good amount of Schumer-Zeldin voters. We’ll have to wait for exit polls for a better reason why this occurred, but I’d bet the rhetoric on crime played a big factor.

Josh Shapiro won by more than double the percentage Hochul did in a Biden +1 state. Look at Whitmer, Evers and Tim Walz as well.

This is not the reason NY Dems blew it.

Sure, agreed in conventional wisdom. But NYS Dems underperformed compared to how the rest of the country's Dems did bar Florida.

While not incorrect at all, there are other factors that I think are still worth taking into account. But this is probably the biggest factor.

No no, I'm pretty sure it's my copium-fueled narrative about how conservatives successfully tricked convinced Asian NYers to voter for them.