Word: cuomo
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...Cuomo is perhaps the great example nationwide this election year of a candidate trying to revive the old New Deal Coalition. He is the darling of the cosmopolitan liberal intellectuals--as shown this summer when the Village Voice all but deified him weekly. He has unanimous and enthusiastic labor support--in New York's very strong organizational asset. He has strong support from Black and Hispanic voters who know that they have nothing to gain from Lehrman's ledger-book legislation. And he has a clear edge among his own Catholic middle class...
ITALIANS COMPRISE almost one-fourth of New York State, and between Cuomo and his lieutenant governor candidate Alfred Delbello they have a chance to put two of their own into statewide prominence. Cuomo will probably be able to bring increasingly conservative Italian voters back into the coalition it only because of his own ethnicity...
With the ideological dichotomy between the two candidates so clear, the race has seen an unprecedented amount of ethnic campaigning Lehrman is Jewish, while most of the state's Jews are consistently liberal Cuomo is an Italian Catholic, while most of his fellows are much more conservative. The result is a feverish attempt by both candidates to raid the other's ethnic group while holding onto their...
...Cuomo is campaigning hard for the Jewish vote, which he has termed crucial to his success. This fervor indeed led him during the primary campaign against Koch to make the little noticed but really quite remarkable--observation that second only to the family home, his biggest single investment is in Israeli bonds Lehrman has matched this ethnic campaigning...
...many ways this election is just a test case of whether the left or the right is stronger statewide in New York. To the surprise of few, a recent New York Times poll revealed that Cuomo is winning in New York City. Lehrman is winning upstate, and the two are running about even in the suburbs...