Cuomo Holds 37-Point Lead in Re-election Race
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 21st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Cuomo Holds 37-Point Lead in Re-election Race
Adam O’Neal, RealClearPolitics
With less than four months until Election Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds a massive lead over his potential Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. Cuomo garners 60 percent of the vote to Astorino’s 23 percent, according to a new Sienna College survey. The same poll showed a similar result last month. Not surprisingly, 59 percent of Empire State voters believe “Cuomo has made New York a better place to live.” Just 15 percent say the opposite, and 21 percent don’t believe there has been a noticeable change. The first-term…
The Choice of Cleveland
David Shribman, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — The Republicans have made a choice, and it’s the last easy one they will have for the next 23 months. They will hold their national political convention in Cleveland. The last time they went to Cleveland, the Republicans faced a small insurgency. The establishment candidate was Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, an oil millionaire who was genial and wry and, as a pillar of the Topeka business community, not much of a threatening figure to anybody. The insurgent was Sen. William Borah of Idaho, an isolationist and colorful progressive known more for what he opposed than for…
