The only people who will care about this, or make it influence their vote, wouldn't have voted for Cuomo, let alone a Democrat, to start with.
I might care, but it probably wouldn't make me not vote for him.
Doesn't need to. Those days have gone the way of his marriage. His ex was just arrested for DUI btw.
Because of the weird, obsolete same-state VP rule, his chance of ever being president take a huge hit if Hillary runs in 2016. Ironic since Bill Clinton likely would never have been president if Mario Cuomo had run. Unless, Jeb is nominated and wants to run with Rubio and it's bipartisan repeal.
Hillary could just move back to Arkansas. Cheney did this; he was living in Texas at the beginning of 2000.
Didn't Cheney already have a Wyoming residence and just change which one he called his primary? I don't think Clintons live in multiple states and doubt they'd go through too much hassle to allow VP Cuomo.
Clinton wouldn't pick Cuomo as her running mate anyway. She'd pick someone with more rural appeal, like a Jon Tester type (though perhaps not Tester himself, since his odds of still being in the Senate after this year aren't looking great at the moment).
She'd be way more likely to pick Schweitzer than Tester but I definitely think Cuomo would be the VP frontrunner if it weren't for the same-state nonsense. Clintons had good results ignoring the idea of VP as balance in 92 and are known to favor loyalists, which Cuomo is. If Obama were popular enough in 2016, Hillary could also keep Biden as VP and Cuomo could still run in '24. There were other reasons for Obama to favor Biden for VP over Bayh and Kaine but I've always had a pet theory that part of the appeal was that, at a moment Obama was sort of desperate for the Clintons' support, picking Biden as VP left the door open for Hillary 2016 without having to put Hillary herself on the ticket.
