New York City is the still the greatest city in the world, despite it’s politics.
But NYC is Democratic-run.
The only conservatives that can make NYC competitive is someone with $$$$$ and the message.
They are conservative neighborhoods of NYC.
Own the cities and you own the state.
So they’re not finding boxes of uncounted ballots behind convenience stores? How odd!
So sorry NY. No electoral university for the gov race. Y’all just gotta deal with it.
Trying to reconcile the title “Andrew Cuomo Is Still Governor...But He Only Won How Many Counties North of NYC?” with Cuomo winning cities of Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo.
I love Western NY, the Finger Lakes region, the Southern Tier, Adirondacks, etc. always will. But its hard to understand how NYS will go from Blue to Purple anytime soon.
Who is the Trump-like person that can make everything north of NYC vote correctly?
Worth noting that Tompkins is one of only four upstate counties to go blue in both of the last two gubernatorial elections, with the other three being anchored by Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo.
Even Monroe, home of Rochester, didn’t go blue in both.
What can one say but . . .
The NYS Thruway runs like the “symbiotic alien spine” through the body of mostly-red New York state…
Out of curiosity and as potential discussion points for my anti-Electoral College (EC) acquaintances, how many visits & how many days did his Cuomoness spend in the non-vote rich counties? Do away with the EC and watch the Presidential Campaigns concentrate on the top 5 voting states. None will be big on agricultural issues because the votes are in the urban areas.
Bye-the-by, isn’t Cuomo anti Electoral College?
WE NEED TO BREAK OFF AND FORM WESTERN NEW YORK
Seems like elections have basically come down to big cities vs rural America with parties fighting over the burbs.
Upstate should secede.
But let’s be clear this was not a narrow win for Cumomo Jr. He got 59% of the vote. It was nearly the same as the POTUS result 2 years ago with one unfortunate exception being he eked it out in Staten Island and Suffolk county.
Hillary BTW very narrowly carried NY outside of NYC and Cuoumo may have as well, number of counties aside, he won the most populated ones.
Just like Wolf in Pennsylvania, Wolf won 17 out of 67 and won, needs to be changed!
Nothing new. It is a vote by population, not by number of counties won.
Time to enact a state level, electoral college. Guys like Cuomo wouldn’t stand a chance. And toss the 17th Amendment while you’re at it.
One of the dumbest articles ever. NYC is where what, 99% of the state’s population lives. Laughable.
States need electoral colleges.