It's over for New York Governor David Paterson. Or if it isn't, he needs to pull, as James Carville would say, the greatest comeback since Lazarus. Marist College. 2/26-27. Registered voters. MoE 3%. Would you rate the job Governor David Paterson is doing as excellent, good, fair or poor? Excellent/...

The competent-governance lesson for today: when faced with a major political decision such as making an appointment to the United States Senate, don't handle it in such a way that the process winds up pissing everybody off. We can now see our way clear to a 2011 when Kirsten Gillibrand is still in o...

The NY Times reports that Long Island Republican Peter King is considering a run to reclaim the scandal-tarred New York governorship for the GOP. It's early yet - King is up for re-election to the House, and won't make a formal decision until after the fall elections. The 63-year-old King may also w...

Not sure what that means exactly but this is all very disturbing. Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this aftern...