“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon has officially announced she is running against Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. Does she have a chance?
I doubt it. The two big parties are very firmly in control of New York politics. Outsiders face a major uphill fight to even get on the ballot.
So if you want to challenge a person like Cuomo in New York, you don’t go to the voters. You work on Democratic Party leaders throughout the state and essentially try to stage a coup against him.
reminds me of a joke - they asked the hooker who slept with Spitzer why she slept with him. Her answer: “because the governor of NJ is gay”
I doubt I’ll vote for her, even though I might agree with her on a lot of subjects. I’ve gone a little sour on celebrities starting at the top.
Running a primary campaign against an incumbent with solid approval ratings is usually a long shot. It’s even harder when it’s your first campaign and you have no relevant experience.
Glad someone is challenging Cuomo. He’s Dan Lipinski in a more prestigious and important job.
seems like TV and movie people have been doing pretty well running for office lately without any prior relevant experience. 
The only one I can think of who lost was Clay Aiken and I'm in the district he ran in. I'm sure there are others who lost that I don't recall.I like Cynthia Nixon, but coming in as governor is a silly way to start a political career.
Wow. That was a very specific and parochial reference I was not expecting. Is Dan Lipinski known beyond Chicagoland, or even southwest Chicagoland? We ran into him and his wife at a church fish fry two weeks ago. (More like my daughters literally ran into his wife at the fish fry, but same difference.)
Oh, hell yes. He’s pretty much the poster child for ‘needlessly and ridiculously conservative Dem in a safe Dem district.’ A number of high-profile Dems have endorsed Marie Newman in today’s primary. Lipinski’s even pulled a page from Lieberman’s book and is asking Republicans to vote in the Dem primary to rescue his sorry ass.
That doesn’t sound like Andrew Cuomo at all.
My impression of him is that he would be a moderate (as in, not nutso) Republican were running as a Republican at all viable in his district. That said, his politics do seem to reflect the electorate around here. I’m actually just barely outside his district (it starts literally a block from my house), but the area he represents is on the conservative side, but historically Democratic because, well, that’s what you were if you lived in Chicago. Many of those people have, actually, switched parties by now in national elections.
I’ve lived in New York for 3 years. In that time, and off the top of my head, he’s signed into law free college education, expanded parental leave, is strongly opposed to the Indian Point nuclear power plant, and wants 50% of NY’s electrical power generation from renewable by 2030.
I’m pretty sure he signed a bill to enact same-sex marriage.
Looking at Lipinski’s wiki page, I don’t see the comparison.
He’s been in no hurry to do anything about the Independent Democratic Coalition, members of the NY Senate who run as Dems but caucus with the GOP, handing control of the NY Senate to the minority GOP.