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...MARIO CUOMO...
...York Governor's spin doctors may be trying too hard to burnish his lackluster re-election victory. Cuomo's percentage of 53.5%, they note, was more than the 53.2% garnered in 1950 by another three-term Governor and one- time presidential contender: Thomas E. Dewey...
...While Bradley suffered a Florio problem, Cuomo's meager showing represented a vote against Cuomo himself -- against his aloofness and his governance. "We must learn to do more with less," Cuomo said during his first term. But state spending has soared, New York's overall tax burden is in the stratosphere, the state's budget deficit is close to $1 billion, and Cuomo's massive spending programs are perceived as having had little if any impact on crime and poverty...
...Cuomo could still win a presidential nomination, but could he unite his party? Some of the Democratic Governors elected last Tuesday favor limited government. Cuomo too will bow to reality and cut New York's budget. "They'll wake up," he says of his constituents. "They rail about spending but they will complain even more when it's cut, when their libraries close and other services decline...
...least rhetorically, Cuomo is keeping faith with his belief in activist government. Yet activism costs, and the electorate is clearly skeptical of government's ability to spend wisely. What is more, Cuomo's liberalism (he calls it "pragmatism") is a luxury voters may only be willing to countenance when times are good. When the economy heads south, as it now has, the kind of government that spends lavishly to protect the environment and help the less fortunate may be seen as threatening the self-interest of the middle class. If, in fact, that is where the majority...