{"id":2155,"date":"2010-05-24T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2010-05-24T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:52:29","slug":"will-cuomo-have-coattails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/24\/will-cuomo-have-coattails\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Cuomo have coattails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siena Research Institute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.edu\/uploadedfiles\/home\/parents_and_community\/community_page\/sri\/sny_poll\/510%20SNY%20Poll%20Release_FINAL.pdf\">new poll<\/a> gives Democrat Andrew Cuomo commanding leads over all his potential Republican rivals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically a 65-22% split at this point, no matter who faces him.\u00a0 There are a lot of months before the election, but these are devastating numbers for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>If the inevitability factor grows, the big question for Cuomo might not be whether he&#8217;ll win but whether he&#8217;ll have coattails.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of state Senate and US House races with big state and national implications &#8212; including the contests in NY20, 23, and 24.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats Scott Murphy, Bill Owens, and Mike Arcuri could get a huge boost if Cuomo&#8217;s popularity builds a big mid-term voter surge.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of Cuomo&#8217;s appeal with the continuing high approval ratings for Barack Obama in New York could make a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if Cuomo&#8217;s win looks more like a ho-hum coronation, a lot of voters might sit this one out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing&#8217;s certain:\u00a0 Democrats have to be happy, looking at these numbers, that they won&#8217;t have David Paterson dragging on the ticket in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siena Research Institute&#8217;s new poll gives Democrat Andrew Cuomo commanding leads over all his potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}