Six points is easily within striking distance, even if the polls don’t move, because of the enthusiasm gap in a “Wave Election”.
Paladino’s people are going to crawl over broken glass to get to the polls. But do you know anybody who is really enthusiastic and charged up about Andrew Cuomo? People are resigned to Cuomo winning, because they figure it is his turn, and they don’t have any better Democrat alternative. But that is not going to be enough to get them out to the polls.
HG...
"Revenge of the Up-Staters, coming to a drive in near you!"
Seriously, I have a bud and his wife near Rochester, 2 of the 3 kids are out of State-ers because the economy sucks on ice and their ain't nothin' their.
Maybe, just maybe downstate is realizing pulling the "D" lever on autopilot that pile of Poo in their front yard was left by the Donkey...
The Upstaters for years have been more conservative and their votes have been esentially overwritten by the Island.
Maybe not this time....
This is before Palidino gets to confront Cuomo (in debate or by ads) of the central role he played as Clinton's HUD sec'y in the subprime bubble and collapse that caused our present economic plight.
Here's the youtube millions of NY voters have not yet seen:
The 1st half is a Cuomo press conference announcing HUD's extortion of banks into granting subprime mortgages, admitting "... {they are mortgages} which will be a higher risk and I'm sure there will be a higher default rate..."