"Since 1990, a weak upstate economy has meant a decline of more than 25% in the population of 25- to 34-year-olds, as young, educated people flee for the South and West."
I fled upstate for VA in the mid-90s when I was 29, so I'm living testiment to that.
Soon-to-be-former U.S. Rep. Sue Kelly (R-NY) told me a few months ago that Pataki has driven the party and the state into the ground and what he hadn't already destroyed, Spitzer would in the next 4 years.
Inter-party canibalism and finger pointing rarely attracts voters.