"'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"
DarthNader
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« on: May 26, 2014, 03:57:09 PM » |
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I don't like Cuomo, but it's easy to see how he wins the nomination.
Most people outside of New Yorkers and political junkies know very little about Cuomo's record. And I'm not sure that any of his policy betrayals or sellouts of the "base", what have you, can be simplified into a single issue as compelling as the Iraq vote or Romneycare.
A lot of activists will be participating in the primaries, but so will casual voters, particularly older Dems who remember Andrew's dad. They start out with the presumption that Mario Cuomo's son, Clinton's HUD secretary, the governor of a liberal state is probably a reasonably solid Democrat. They can be dissuaded from that, but he will not be laughed out of the race and will have lots of $$ and establishment backing to make his case.
It should also be noted that, for all the Elizabeth Warren buzz, there is definitely a (growing?) cohort of yuppie Dems that have Cuomoesque policy stances. This is especially true in a state like NH.
The bigger problem is definitely the lack of charisma and likability, especially when compared with his father. Abrasive Northeastern pols have been known to self-destruct recently (Giuliani, Christie).
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