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...LEWIS LEHRMAN somehow were elected to succeed New York Gov. Hugh Carey, the Democratic pols were laughing this summer. New York would be the only state to have had governors Hughie, Dewey, and Lewie. But those same Democratic pols were the ones laughing this summer at the thought that anyone could beat New York Mayor Edward I. Koch in a Democratic gubernatorial primary. They're not laughing anymore...
...Lehrman didn't inspire much awe a few months ago. Perhaps second only to Koch himself, Lehrman has the physical air of chicken man Frank Perdue gone Ivy League. Scion of a wealthy family, Lehrman seemed a poor little rich boy with the improbable trademark of a pair of red suspenders--hardly a marketing package designed to sell well in most parts of the state...
...Lehrman saturated the airwaves and took the Republican primary in a romp, reportedly spending more than $6 million of his own money for that initial race alone. By becoming a fixture on daily and night time television, Lehrman has catapulted himself through sheer dollars into a leading spokesman for conservative, indeed libertarian, government. Or, as his Democratic opponent Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo put it, "a more Radical version of Reaganomics...
Cuomo is everything Lehrman is not. Where Lehrman lives on the upper East Side of Manhattan (now that he lives in Manhattan at all--until five years ago, he lived in Pennsylvania, reportedly to avoid income taxes). Cuomo lives in Queens. He is from the "outer boroughs," the neighborhoods. He's an Italian Catholic. He's well- read...
MONEY MATTERS. The gubernatorial race between Democrat Mario Cuomo, 50, and Republican Lew Lehrman, 44, presents a clear-cut battle of ideologies and personal styles. Lieutenant Governor Cuomo, a traditional big-city liberal who pulled off a surprising win over New York City Mayor Ed Koch for the Democratic nomination, lives in a modest house in Queens and has strong appeal among his fellow Italian Americans, the state's biggest ethnic voting bloc. Cuomo is leading narrowly in all polls. By comparison, Political Novice Lew Lehrman, a wealthy Republican who transformed the family business into a discount-drug store...