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Think about it long enough, and there are a thousand other problems and obstacles to a Cuomo-Kerrey coupling, beginning with whether Cuomo really wants to run. But just suppose...
...Cuomo-Kerrey Scenario...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, continuing his Hamlet act well past what had been thought to be the last scene, had done nothing to discourage either a New Hampshire write-in campaign or efforts to start a national draft movement. Then there is serious talk about Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the 1988 vice- presidential nominee -- who has passed word that he would accept a draft -- and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, like Gephardt a 1988 also-ran, plus more wistful speculation about Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell -- almost everybody...
...vulture decides to fly, he had better start fast. By the time New Hampshire's votes are counted Tuesday night, filing deadlines will have passed for primaries in 28 states that will elect about half of all the 4,287 pledged convention delegates. If Cuomo decided right now to jump into the race after all, he could no longer get on the ballot in his own state; the filing deadline for New York's April 7 primary passed last week. If he, Gephardt or any other potential candidate tarries even past Thursday, he would also be shut...
...obviously is not going to make it -- or who has already dropped out -- swings a deal. In return, perhaps, for the vice presidential nomination, he urges delegates still pledged to him to vote for the late starter. There already are rumors of just such a budding deal between Cuomo and Kerrey...