Cuomo faced a stiff challenge for the Working Families Party ballot line from one “Zephyr Teachout”, but managed to win at their convention by a margin of 59-41.
That’s too bad, it would have been helpful for a third party leftist to steal a few percentage points from Cuomo (some polling suggested that Zephyr could have gotten over 20% but I don’t buy that).
Zephyr is an interesting character. She was part of the Howard Dean team in Iowa ... she is a writer, not a hack. An articulate leftwing populist.
“..it would have been helpful for a third party leftist to steal a few percentage points from Cuomo ..”
For sure.
But the good new is, Rob Astorino has been called a long shot before, and ended up winning in a landslide.
And later Astorino was reelected because he did what he SAID he would do. Unlike Cuomo, who promised to help NY’s economy, but only cared about his radical liberal social agenda.