[RayChuang88]

Love him or hate him, Mario Cuomo was a HUGE figure in politics during the 1970's to 1990's. In fact, there was a lot of talk that Cuomo should have run for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 1988, but he declined to run given the innumerable issues of a Presidential race.

Mario Cuomo is arguably the most high-profile politician of Italian-American descent besides Rudy Giuliani and Fiorello LaGuardia.

[ansel12]

More of a local story than national.

[plain talk]

I never understood why he didn’t run for President in 1988. I believe he would have won and had it for 8 years and delayed Clinton by four years. Mario Coumo was a great orator in the league of Slick Willie.