re: #345 lawhawk

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Teachout won more counties than she had any business doing, especially since she’s to the left of Cuomo and upstate is generally more conservative than Cuomo.

Some of this might be blowback for the SAFE Act that Cuomo got rammed through the legislature. But it also shows the antipathy of voters in NY. It seems that everyone’s resigned to a Cuomo reelection, so few turned out. Cuomo got enough turnout in NYC to get reelected comfortably by a 62-34 margin. Of course, pundits and the GOP will look at the county splits and see that Cuomo is vulnerable.

When turnout was sparse - a few hundred people voting in each county upstate, I don’t think you can take anything away from the outcome other than people simply didn’t care enough to vote. And that leaves us with the mess we’re in - whether its localities that don’t reflect their constituencies or are pushing policies that are out of step with public sentiment as expressed in polling.

GOTV faces an uphill battle against apathy, and that’s not a good sign for anyone.

re: #345 lawhawk

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Teachout won more counties than she had any business doing, especially since she’s to the left of Cuomo and upstate is generally more conservative than Cuomo.

Some of this might be blowback for the SAFE Act that Cuomo got rammed through the legislature. But it also shows the antipathy of voters in NY. It seems that everyone’s resigned to a Cuomo reelection, so few turned out. Cuomo got enough turnout in NYC to get reelected comfortably by a 62-34 margin. Of course, pundits and the GOP will look at the county splits and see that Cuomo is vulnerable.

When turnout was sparse - a few hundred people voting in each county upstate, I don’t think you can take anything away from the outcome other than people simply didn’t care enough to vote. And that leaves us with the mess we’re in - whether its localities that don’t reflect their constituencies or are pushing policies that are out of step with public sentiment as expressed in polling.

GOTV faces an uphill battle against apathy, and that’s not a good sign for anyone.

I was reading somewhere that Cuomo had “eyes on the prize” — the Democratic nomination for President, although they didn’t make clear whether he was looking at 2016 or post-Hillary.

The article also suggested that any vote total below 70% would hurt him very much, given Teachout’s underfunded campaign — 62% suggests a fairly big “anti-Cuomo” vote.

A lot of what I’ve read indicates Cuomo is very much “Republican-lite,” and more than a few people have called him a DINO. If that’s the case, that’s no great loss if it hurts his national ambitions.