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.
He was popular until he passed the NY SAFE Act which created a voluntary gun registry no gun owner has to abide by
That was enough to defeat Gore. He'll also have to explain where the money for "free college" comes from to parents who have already paid for their own kids to go to college. There's more to being a politician than appealing to liberal New Yorkers.
NY already had mostly free college under TARP funding...Cuomo just expanded it
TAP, not TARP. For the poorest students, 90% of tuition was already covered. That went to 100%. But only 0% of fees is covered, and fees are more than 10% of tuition at the SUNYs.
