Pataki at this point will probably take all the help he can get. He's lost some support in upstate as Tom Golisano has been picking up steam.
Even though he's going to win, he wouldn't be running into trouble if he stopped acting like a democrat on some issues like supporting gun control measures and college education for lawbreaking illegal aliens. If he has national ambitions, I'd say he's shot himself in the foot on those positions alone.
Golisano is putting out an unbelievable volume of radio ads in my Upstate NY region. It is amazing to me because it's all being paid from his personal funds (unless we're being lied to, which is always possible). They are all attack ads against Pataki. Some quite vicious.
(steely)