Andrew Cuomo

[houseonaboat]

His unpopularity in Upstate NY is a big red flag. Upstate is basically a miniature Midwest.

Isn't he... fairly popular upstate? I mean NYC is still his stronghold but that's the idea behind him vs de Blasio, right? That Cuomo wins upstate voters and de Blasio relies on his super progressive NYC base

And unpopularity is all relative btw -- he's at 60% approval which blows away almost every other big-name governor in the country.

[houseonaboat]

I really don't get the argument that people are trying to make here. New York is a blue state, sure, but it's substantially more Republican than Texas is Democrat, and Cuomo a.) has a 60 percent approval rating and b.) outperforms generic NYC Democrats among upstate voters. If you want to argue that Cuomo would outperform Hillary (or many other Dems) among upstate voters in 2020, these are the datapoints you would use (I would disagree with that argument, but still).