And so a multi-millionaire real estate tycoon bought his way onto the ticket and won votes for being a racist jagoff. Don't think he can win the general? Keep telling yourself that. Millions of pissed off Tea Party folks are going to make their votes count in November. For those of you who think the Tea Party is harmless or as one friend told me last night "It's just the pendulum swinging back the other way" then you're badly underestimating what's going on here.
Taegan Goddard, this morning:
A new Quinnipiac poll in New York finds Andrew Cuomo (D) leading Carl Paladino (R) by just six points among likely voters in the race for governor, 49% to 43%.Said pollster Maurice Carroll: "The question was whether Carl Paladino would get a bounce from his big Republican primary victory. The answer is yes. He's within shouting distance and -- you can count on it -- he will be shouting. Andrew Cuomo might be a victim of his own excess. Politicians and polls have depicted him so relentlessly as a sure thing that he might be a victim of the 'throw the bums out' attitude that hits incumbents in this angry year."
Still think the Tea Party is a harmless bunch of loons with no chance of winning, folks?
The enthusiasm gap is killing the Democrats. Paladino should be down sixty in a state like New York, not six. But Democrats don't want to vote, and Republicans do. The result is that the most insane wing of the Republican Party will make huge gains in six weeks. This is a guy who sent out racist e-mails about the President on multiple occasions and thinks New York's poor should be put in camps away from the general population to be "re-educated".
He's within six points of being the governor of New York.
Get it in gear, folks. There's a clear choice this fall.
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Close this window Jump to comment formExcept the poll didn't include Lazio. I would take this poll with a grain of salt because the results are skewed.
September 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM