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...voters have been far more critical of Cuomo's own, more modest $1.6 billion cut, seen as cynical from a man who could have proposed it long before the election (much like his last-minute scheme to lower state electricity rates by buying the huge Lilco utility). Says Lee Miringoff of Marist College, one of many pollsters who have chronicled a Pataki lead of about 44% to 40%: "Cuomo has a problem: he's running on his past record. Pataki, on the other hand, has no appreciable past...
...essence, the debate served to restart the campaign." said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "Overall, it was a net plus for Dukakis in that it leveled the playing field for both of them...