Don’t know how true it is, but a credible-sounding guy called a talk show, and said he was at a bar, and was told some in Westchester County are pro-Astorino, but voted against him because they did not want to lose him, and become the sixth borough.
Guess anything is possible. :)
It’s possible. A situation in Nebraska unfolded similar to that in 1996. When Democrat then-Gov. Ben Nelson decided to run for the Senate with two years left on his term. At the time, his approval ratings were sky-high (he easily survived the ‘94 elections) at it was expected he’d easily hold the seat of retiring Dem. Sen. Jim Exon. Chuck Hagel, who had never run or held office before, was considered to be the desultory opponent for Nelson.
In a shocking upset, Hagel ended up defeating Nelson, with many of those in the state answering that they wanted Nelson to stay in Lincoln and not have the leftist Lt Governor Kim Robak succeed him in office. Flash forward 18 years later and Nelson & Hagel are both some of the most reviled political figures around (with both retiring from the Senate ahead of being defeated).
I would presume the number of people that voted against Astornio for Governor because they wanted him to remain in his current office, is negligible. Not zero certainly because voters have all kinds of dumb reasons, but I can’t imagine it was any great number of people.