Cuomo should be very worried that the NYT printed this.
Cuomo has nothing to worry about. Astorino is simply not a good fit for NY state. He is socially conservative in a state where 3/4 of the voters are socially liberal.
The NYTimes doesn’t like Cuomo. Not that they like Astorino - but they ‘ll be throwing some jabs at Cuomo to indicate their displeasure. They wouldn’t endorse Cuomo in the primary. I wouldn’t be surprised if they abstained from endorsing anyone in the Governor’s race, in the election.
Ping
New York elected a GOPer (Pataki) over Mario Cuomo when Pataki ran as a pro death sentence conservative.
Something about the Cuomo’s is that become really annoying to just about everyone after a few years.
Unfortunately, the GOP party system was killed under state chairman Ed Cox and NY may never elect a Republican statewide again.
The Northeast (and I live in CT) has to crash and burn before the LOINFO voters ever get it. The average voter here has no idea how screwed he is.
The TV and radio ads against Astorino dwell on his opposition to a woman’s right to “choose” and spending bills he’s voted against, describing that as harming women, the elderly and minorities. They don’t mention the parts of the bills that poisoned them, of course.
He should do “here’s why” ads in response. I haven’t seen any for him.