NY-Siena Poll: Gov. Paterson (D) in very, very bad shape

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OMG

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/04/patersons-sight-gag.html


endorsed  (the end is the best)

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Why don't they just poll Suozzi and Paterson, since that seems likely to be the race if Cuomo doesn't run.

Says who?  Suozzi shares a lot of friends and advisers in the same circles as Paterson and has explicitly said he wouldn't run against him...but that was also back when he was the favored candidate to be Lt. Governor

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Ben, like the dignity he showed here?

OMG

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/04/patersons-sight-gag.html


endorsed  (the end is the best)

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Why's he so unpopular?

New York is ungovernable, especially during a recession, due to factional politics preventing making cuts to social services combined with the two-vote majority the Democrats have in one of the state legislatures, combined with the fact that New York is forced to have a balanced budget.

And he wasn't elected in his own right.  Paterson has the tendency to be overly meticulous in his decisions, to the extent that it impedes his ability to lead [see: Gillibrand, Kirsten]. 

But if it wasn't a recession, he'd'a'be doin' better.

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It's symbolic though of his tendency to waffle and over-deliberate instead of taking action.

He tried to govern from the center in the beginning of his unexpected tenure, getting Democrats pissed at him, and now he's raising taxes and cutting social entitlement programs... the things Democrats and Republicans both hate...