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What If Mario Cuomo Had Run?

January 3, 2015 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments

Jonathan Alter: “Even then, most of us doubted he would show up and actually sign the papers allowing him to enter the 1992 New Hampshire primary. The New York Times had reported earlier that fall that Governor Mario Cuomo had spent only 36 nights out of more than 1,300 as governor in a bed other than his own at the Executive Mansion in Albany. The man just didn’t get out enough to be president.”

“But for liberal Democrats, the questions remain: Would he have won the presidency in 1992, and if he had, would the country have experienced a restoration of the New Deal and the Great Society and the liberal governing values he articulated so well?”

Filed Under: Political History Tagged With: Mario Cuomo

Quote of the Day

January 3, 2015 at 8:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

“He said it was good — especially for a second-termer. See? My father’s a third-termer.”

— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), quoted by the New York Times, after reading Mario Cuomo a draft of his inaugural speech just hours before he died.

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo

Mario Cuomo is Dead

January 1, 2015 at 10:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments

“Mario M. Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who commanded the attention of the country with a compelling public presence, a forceful defense of liberalism and his exhaustive ruminations about whether to run for president, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82,” the New York Times reports.

“His family confirmed the death, which occurred only hours after Mr. Cuomo’s son Andrew M. Cuomo was inaugurated in Manhattan for a second term as governor.”

Cuomo’s speech at the 1984 Democratic convention is one of the best ever.

Filed Under: Political History Tagged With: Mario Cuomo


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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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