[TigersEye]

No offense to anyone who might fit the description but ... no New York Italian with a strong NY accent and mob ties is ever going to carry mid-west or western states. Cuomo has a snowball’s chance in Hades.

[Alberta's Child]

Exactly. That's basically why Chris Christie didn't have a chance in hell of getting elected to the White House, either -- even if he had been a perfect governor with no hint of scandal.

As a wise friend once pointed out to me: "Nobody from New Jersey who looks and sounds like he's from New Jersey is going to win more than a couple of states west of the Delaware River."