How Did Paladino Win Western New York So Convincingly
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Jordan Gwendolyn
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« on: December 26, 2010, 08:37:46 PM »

I mean, yes, he's from Buffalo, but Cuomo won big everywhere else in the state , the only blue parts of the Atlas map are a few scattered counties in the east and of course, the Buffalo area.

To be honest, I found it suspicious that Paladino won Erie county by 21 points. Usually, D candidates don't lose Erie County unless they are losing fairly big across upstate.
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Sam Spade
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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 08:43:29 PM »

Paladino is somewhat of a legend in Buffalo - unless you live there, you don't really know it.  Also, Paladino is basically the only employer in Buffalo nowadays as well.
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 07:09:52 PM »

There's no conspiracy here.  As Sam said, Paladino is very well known and popular in the Buffalo area.  He's basically their Donald Trump, without Trump's negatives.  He is best known in the Buffalo area for getting the tolls removed from the New York State Thruway in portions of Erie County - which, as you can imagine, was very popular there.

Contrary to Sam's tongue-in-cheek comment, Western New York has a number of multi-millionaire/billionaire employers like Paladino, from the Rich family to Tom Golisano to the Wegman family in the Rochester area.
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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2010, 12:20:24 AM »

He's from there/those counties have really poor economies.
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 10:12:41 PM »

How about the city of Buffalo itself? 
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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2011, 10:14:45 PM »

If he were a Congressman from Western New York, would you be as surprised?
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« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 10:15:10 PM »


He lives in the city.
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« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 10:19:42 PM »


But what was the percentage there?
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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2011, 10:32:24 PM »

Erie County results:

http://www.erieboe.com/content.aspx?id=94

Buffalo went 61.9 - 32.5 for Cuomo, looks like.
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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 10:55:13 PM »


To put in perspective (from the other links):

2008:  Obama 76.8%, McCain 15.4%
2004:  Kerry 72.0%, Bush 20.4%
Pataki got 24.0% with Golisano getting 17.0% in 2002.
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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2011, 11:15:14 PM »


Thanks Cheesy 
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« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2011, 01:00:42 AM »

This was a very informative post.  I was very curious about this myself.  After all, even Pataki, D'Amato and Reagan didn't win Erie Cnty and they actually wont he state
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« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2011, 06:23:47 PM »


Then Paladino's margin in suburban Erie is very impressive: 65.3%-31.3%.
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« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2011, 07:03:42 PM »


Then Paladino's margin in suburban Erie is very impressive: 65.3%-31.3%.

Indeed, every town in Erie County went to Paladino except for Buffalo. He also came less than 100 votes short of winning in Niagara Falls.
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