New York's Governor's Race Is Suddenly Too Close For Democrats' Comfort (NY Times)

[pstokely]

wasn't the CA recall close in the polls also?

https://web.archive.org/web/20221025103036/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/nyregion/hochul-zeldin-governor-ny.html/

But for Democrats who are not accustomed to close statewide races in New York, some level of panic appears to be setting in — that Mr. Zeldin could flip Black, Latino and Asian voters worried about public safety, but also that other rank-and-file Democratic voters may simply sit the race out because of apathy about Ms. Hochul and her low-key campaign.

“It doesn’t feel like there’s a ton of groundswell from the bottom up,” Crystal Hudson, a left-leaning Brooklyn City Council member. “Perhaps Democrats are taking for granted that New York state is bluer than we think it might be.”

In Manhattan, the borough president, Mark D. Levine, said he, too, had grown increasingly concerned in recent weeks that Democratic voters were missing the warning signs. On Sunday, he put together a rally with more than a dozen elected Democrats on the ultraliberal Upper West Side to “wake up Dems.” The event turned raucous when hecklers, some wearing Zeldin garb, tried to derail the speakers.

“There hasn’t been a seriously competitive statewide election in 20 years and Democrats certainly in Manhattan and elsewhere have been taking November on autopilot,” Mr. Levine said afterward. “It’s not an exaggeration to say we can’t win statewide unless we get Democrats in Manhattan excited to vote

[Lovie777]

1. Bullshit . ..

P.S. there are more "partisan polling" in this cycle re pro GQP, including NYT.

[Scrivener7]

2. The same day they publish another midwest diner interview story.

How the Times has fallen.

[Sympthsical]

3. The CA race pulled away with a month to go

It was close before Larry Elder became the candidate. Once it was a given he was the opponent, things rapidly tilted to Newsom. No one wanted that kind of crazy.

[Polybius]

4. This is a hard race to predict, but the polls are not BS, this is not Cali

I have it as Zeldin losing by no more than 6 points, or winning in an upset by 1 point. That's the best he could possibly do, so I am putting this in the lean Blue category.

[fightforfreedom]

5. I'm from NY and I call Bullshit.

New Yorkers are not going to elect an anti abortion lunatic.