Posted on 10/22/2002 12:18:38 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Bill and Hillary Clinton backstabbed former Clintonoid Andrew Cuomo to endorse Carl McCall for governor of New York. Now McCall is repaying the favor by running such a poor campaign that he's already damaging Hillary's future presidential run.
McCall could finish a humiliating third in the Nov. 5 election, behind Republican Gov. George Pataki and Independence Party zillionaire Tom Golisano, "who has been surging in recent polls," the New York Post reported today.
"A third-place finish by McCall would plunge state Democrats - who outnumber Republicans by 2 million voters - to Row C on the ballot for the next four years, after the Republican and Independence Parties.
"Such a setback would have serious implications for all Democrats, especially potential presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton," the Post noted.
"McCall is collapsing upstate, and that's benefiting Golisano," admitted Hank Sheinkopf, recently fired as a top McCall strategist.
"The strategic notion that the McCall campaign had was that Golisano was going to injure Pataki, but that's not happening.
"If Golisano manages to come in second - and I think that is possible - that will be a significant humiliation to the Democratic Party, and it would put New York into the column of ‘swing' states," Sheinkopf said.
A leading Democrat fumed to the Post, "The Clintons were supposed to be helping revitalize the New York Democratic Party, not presiding over its destruction."
LOL! This is too good.
New York has always been a state for swingers.. Why do you think bill Clinton lives there?
Democrats can't! LOL!
It's too good to be true. Beware of what Hillary pulls out of her hat to avoid any such humiliation at the polls.
Well, this guy flunked the intelligence test...
What's happened to make this possible is that the Democreep vote has been split between Pataki and McCall. McCall has had a hard time running to the left of the (nominal) GOP candidate Pataki.
Ah, the crazy world of NY politics . . .
Democrats are real stupid. However, there is plenty of evidence that the "higher" you are on the voting machine the more votes you get if everything else is equal. It tends to be an advantage of 1-3% which is enough to swing close elections.
In a Civics book they can. But then, in a Civics book they can write in a candidate, too.It's only justice--those who live by Public Relations should die by Public Relations.
In the pre-Pataki era, the Republicans were at serious risk of losing Row B to the Conservative Party, which actually troubled to field a respectable candidate that year (probably 1990) whereas Republican candidate Ron Lauder was . . . well, he was wealthy . . .
If you come down to it, if the only real issue on Nov 5 is whether the Democrats are Row B or Row C . . . I might consider my vote to be my preference for second!
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