Cuomo v. Teachout

[Bacon King]

Yeah a NYT endorsement will singlehandedly bring Teachout into the mainstream.

[Bacon King]

Hillary Clinton is robocalling for Cuomo/Hochul

I guess she wants to stop New York from electing a female governor over a corrupt male incumbent. It'll be good to remember to bring this up when she or her supporters mention something about the "glass ceiling".

While I agree that Clinton helping out Cuomo is obviously just blatant opportunism on her part, I think it's kind of silly to allege that this is in anyway hypocritical of her feminist beliefs. Advocating gender equality and supporting more female voices in politics doesn't mean you can't ever support a man running for office against a woman. By that logic if Sarah Palin ran for president in 2012 every feminist should have supported her just because of her gender

[Bacon King]

If Teachout is elected how does she get treated by the wacky State Senate?

[Bacon King]

semi-related question: in states with a closed primary is the turnout figure still based on the number of all registered voters or is it the number of people registered in the party?

[Bacon King]

Howie Hawkins is probably going to get at least five times the vote that he got in 2010.

In the July Marist poll, he was at 7%, so hopefully he only goes up from there.

Yeah, maybe he can crack 10% like Rich Whitney in Illinois back in '06.

my favorite moment was when a group of predominantly black Chicago precincts had ballots with the misprinted name "Rich Whitey"