That’s true; before Obama was elected I thought we’d seen the last Dem president from a socialist rustbelt state; now I’m not so sure. All ethnic bets are off (where people felt no non-WASP would win) if a foreign Muslim can win.
I think Cuomo is hurt by the fact that his state is an economic basket-case that Dems would probably carry anyway; Dems will probably need someone who will put a Republican state up for grabs.
The cities, Syracuse,Ithaca, Albany, and NYC outweigh the rest of the state by a healthy margin.
So. A dem could be caught defiling a corpse and it wouldn’t matter in NY.