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Poll: Race Doesn't Matter in Cuomo/Paterson Run

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Though Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's opponents have warned him his bid against Gov. Paterson will be "racially divisive," a new poll shows most voters don't think so. 80 percent of respondents in a Quinnipiac Univeristy poll said a run-off between the two Democrats would not upset racial relations, reports the NY Post. Among black voters, 73 percent said there'd be no racial split. This week Paterson and Republican candidate Rick Lazio both chastised Cuomo for waiting to officially declare his candidacy, but the poll showed 78 percent of voters aren't impatient for the announcement. It also confirmed that, among Democratic voters, the attorney general is still twice as popular as the state's first-ever black governor, reports NY1.

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  • jpeditor

    What a choice. An idiot gov who spends more energy flirting with floosies than he does working, vs a jerk who helped start the mortgage crises at HUD.

    Welcome to NY State, the new Detroit.

  • hunter.blatherer

    Well, we’re not so happy with the current political scion running things (Paterson), so we want Cuomo to fuck things up instead. Hell, we love dynasties so much Harold Ford Jr. thinks he can get all up in our shit. “Who does this Kirsten Girliebrand think she is,” he asks himself, “getting her plebeian juices all over the Seat of Kennedy and Clinton?”

    At least Bloomberg and Koch are gay, or we'd really be in trouble if they reproduced.

  • jpeditor

    LOL!

  • hunter.blatherer

    Well, who the hell does get impatient for any politician's candidacy?

  • MrCholly

    They really believe these pollsters. Ok.

  • Didn't we already know that race ceased to matter when one candidate was clearly better than the other? This is a post-Obama America!

  • ides_of_march

    It doesn't matter because there isn't really a huge difference in their skin complexion.

    Race obsessed liberals will find a way to make it an issue somehow.

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