Hank Sheinkopf
Hank Sheinkopf
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This is another clear signal that George Pataki is positioning himself on the national stage to run for president.
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She needs to spend a lot of time in portions of the state who match the profile of those in the Midwest, which she will need if she runs for president in 2008. If she can win them over in New York, she can win them over in Ohio.
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This would also be consistent with a strategy designed to run up high vote totals in New York in areas of the state where the right will try to tell people that she cannot perform well.
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Incumbents are re-elected the vast majority of the time, so a challenger like Freddy needs an overwhelming emotion argument in his ads and on the street for why the mayor should be fired. Freddy never went negative, but he had nothing to go positive with, either.
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stinging rebuke of the incumbent. What it tells you is that the majority of Brooklyn prefer a change.
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It's an attempt to get her core fund-raising base energized and prepared for what will be a very serious attack to stop her from being president.
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Snyder waged a tough campaign. But the edge usually goes to the incumbent in elections.
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The fact that you do this kind of race gets you tremendous cachet because it's very hard to do. You can expect Anthony Weiner to loom large in city politics for some time to come.
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Weiner is showing he can't be pushed around and that's a fine thing, but Kruger ... tries to settle all scores behind the scenes. That's the way politics works in that part of Brooklyn.
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Andy Cuomo can't win on an even playing field because he is not qualified for this office. That's why he is dependent on a single powerful union.
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Presidents of the United States don't allow themselves to be pushed around.
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This is the first election in New York City history where the majority is minority.
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Bush is not on the ballot, Bloomberg is, ... People think he's done a good job.
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No fabricated resume can equal Mark Green's lifelong record of defending New Yorkers and working as the people's lawyer.