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Cox asks Lazio to end his quest
Republican state leader asks ex-congressman to stop run as Conservative

By JIMMY VIELKIND
Capitol bureau

For the second time in six months, leaders of the New York State Republican Party are turning away from Rick Lazio, calling on him to end his campaign for governor now that he has lost a party primary to Carl Paladino, the insurgent Buffalo developer who rode a wave of Tea Party support to victory.

Lazio may continue his candidacy on the Conservative Party line, which he secured after a successful primary run last week.

Republican State Chairman Ed Cox wrote to Lazio that “any such effort would be specifically designed to pull votes away from Republican nominee Carl Paladino. We all know that you appreciate the importance of working together with the Conservative party to maximize our potential for success, as is the case with all our other statewide candidates.”

The letter was also signed by the party’s top regional vice chairmen, who mostly opposed Lazio’s candidacy in favor of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, an enrolled Democrat. Only after much wrangling did Lazio win the party’s nomination at the convention, and he has had a shallow alliance with Cox and many of the chairmen since.

Lazio will address the New York Associated Press Association on Wednesday and may announce his next steps then.

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With the future of the Conservative Party line in danger -- I don't see Lazio dropping out.

If Loser Lazio doesn't drop out the CONS line will go the way of the Liberal Line. Paladino down by only 6%? Prince Andrew needs to rethink his no debate Rose Garden strategy.

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If Loser Lazio doesn't drop out the CONS line will go the way of the Liberal Line. Paladino down by only 6%? Prince Andrew needs to rethink his no debate Rose Garden strategy.

If Lazio drops out now -- his name will still be on the ballot on the Conservative line -- so
the Conservative line depends on Lazio drawing at least 50,000 votes on that line to stay
alive.

The 3 O's.......

Lazio
Paladino
Cuomo

that's funny........

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Updated: Thu., Sep. 23, 2010, 11:42 AM
Andy can't play it cool another day
By FREDRIC U. DICKER
Last Updated: 11:42 AM, September 23, 2010
Posted: 2:37 AM, September 23, 2010

ALBANY -- The startling new Quinnipiac University poll has pierced the veil of An drew Cuomo's electoral inevitability, shaking his campaign to the foundations in the process.

The good news for Attorney General Cuomo is that while bomb-throwing Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino is breathing down his neck, Cuomo has plenty of time remaining to change campaign strategy before the Nov. 2 gubernatorial election.

The bad news is that Cuomo will have to replace his notoriously cautious and controlling style with a genuine sense of outrage and passion if he wants to connect with the voters' anger and demands for change that have made Paladino a serious contender..................>>>>...............>>>>.............http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/andy_can_play_it_cool_another_day_tp0vZlYoMiKwRjoOe2BheP

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Polls Push Cuomo to Pounce
By Ellis Henican
Published September 24, 2010 | FoxNews.com


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Nothing focuses a front-runner’s mind like a suddenly tightening poll.

A day after Carl Paladino snuck within six points of Andrew Cuomo in the Quinnipiac survey of the governor’s race, the Democratic attorney general leapt immediately onto the attack.

His first shot? A negative TV ad portraying the Tea Party Republican as a small-government hypocrite, collecting millions off government leases and tax breaks while making huge donations to Albany politicians.

“Part of the problem,” the Cuomo ad proclaims over Paladino’s splotchy headshot.
Oh, this is already getting to be fun!

The Quinnipiac poll is a bit of an outlier. Survey USA has Cuomo up by nine points. Siena has the Cuomo lead at more than twenty points. And so soon after the billionaire Republican’s primary victory over dull Rick Lazio, all these numbers are likely to jump around for a while.

But still. Andrew Cuomo may actually have a race on his hands. And one thing about billionaire candidates, no matter how wacky they are: They do have money, bushels of it.

Paladino struck back with his own hit-job, a print ad blasting Cuomo for saying that he’d vote for Mike Bloomberg, when in fact he hadn’t. But certainly we haven’t heard the last of Cuomo’s shots. He’s abandoned his above-the-fray strategy. The mud will begin to fly in all directions.

In all his time around New York politics, Andrew Cuomo has never been known for underreacting to his political enemies. He punches, he pounces and he doesn’t like to stop.
Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor and no fan of Cuomo’s, had some fascinating insights on CNN.

“The problem that Andrew has is that everybody knows that behind the scenes, he is the dirtiest, nastiest political player out there,” said Spitzer, certainly no slouch in the dirty/nasty department.

“He has brass knuckles and he played hard ball. He has a lot of enemies out there. …He may not want to pretend he plays that game. He does, and he's worse at it.".............>>>>.................>>>>......................http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/09/24/ellis-henican-carl-paladino-andrew-cuomo-governor-race/

The huge difference between the Quinnipiac and Siena polls is that Quinnipiac's poll used only
responses from "likely voters"  -- which from the science of polling perspective makes it much
more likely to be accurate.

Uhhh, we know.

That's old news DVR.

I don't believe that any poll they take is going to have much of a chance of being accurate in this political climate

Just look at the polls they took the day before the primary. Lazio over Paladino by 1 point, and yet Paladino won by almost 30 points

Why didn't the polls reflect that ?

I can tell you why. You can't tell who is a likely voter anymore

When you go by the stats that the Board of Elections gives you, they have the records for each voter for the last few cycles, and you can look at their records to see if they've voted in general elections and primaries

You might as well just throw those stats right out the window. The people who haven't voted in years are now voting. There are people who have never voted before who are now so angry at ALL politicians that they are voting now, and they only want to vote for somebody they never heard of

There's an anti-incumbent attitude out there like there never has been before

The people are becoming wise to the fact that a deal was made by Al D'Amato between the republicans and the democrats to have the republicans run the weakest candidate they could find against Cuomo in order to make it an easy win for him, and the voters don't like it, and they seem determined to throw a monkey wrench into that plan

A win for Carl Paladino would break quite a few back room deals and cause a lot of light to be shed on what's going on in Albany

And I think that's something the public would like to see

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Paladino blasts Cuomo snow 'job'
By BRENDAN SCOTT Post Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:33 AM, September 29, 2010
Posted: 1:33 AM, September 29, 2010

ALBANY -- Republican Carl Paladino ripped Democrat Andrew Cuomo's new jobs plan "as more empty promises" yesterday, while the attorney general slammed the Buffalo builder as "extreme" on his home turf.

The gubernatorial candidates traded blows as Cuomo visited the Buffalo waterfront to propose a series of tax credits, regulatory changes and business-development programs, part of a 181-page job-creation plan.

A dozen Paladino supporters, including one costumed duck hired by Paladino to mock Cuomo's efforts to evade the Republican's questions, turned out to picket the event.

Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo said Cuomo, the US housing secretary in the Clinton administration, "never created a job in his life."

"Hiring Cuomo to create jobs is like asking a ballet dancer to do brain surgery," Caputo said.

Paladino, who says his real-estate empire employs 450 people, proposes to stimulate job creation by cutting state spending by 20 percent and slashing taxes by 10 percent.

Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said he created tens of thousands of jobs during his tenure at the Department of Housing and Urban Development...................>>>>...................>>>>..................http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/paladino_blasts_cuomo_snow_job_vPTj9ynurzIegWpZs4lbnI

this guy is the best!!! When he gets elected, I'm buying him a 4 year supply of baseball bats!!!

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I don't believe that any poll they take is going to have much of a chance of being accurate in this political climate
Just look at the polls they took the day before the primary. Lazio over Paladino by 1 point, and yet Paladino won by almost 30 points
Why didn't the polls reflect that ?
I can tell you why. You can't tell who is a likely voter anymore
When you go by the stats that the Board of Elections gives you, they have the records for each voter for the last few cycles, and you can look at their records to see if they've voted in general elections and primaries
You might as well just throw those stats right out the window. The people who haven't voted in years are now voting. There are people who have never voted before who are now so angry at ALL politicians that they are voting now, and they only want to vote for somebody they never heard of

There's an anti-incumbent attitude out there like there never has been before

I would agree about your analysis about "likely voters" when it came to the primary --
in a "normal" primary turnout .. you are lucky to see 10% to 20% of the party voters  .. and I
could tell by the lines at town hall (where I vote) .. the lines to vote for the GOP primary were
long.    I have been voting for 30 years and have NEVER seen a line that long to vote in the
primary ... and it was NOT because of the new voting machines .. because the people seemed
to be moving along quite well once they got the ballot.