Pataki: Why Blakeman Could Win NY Governor Race

Former Gov. George Pataki told WABC radio that Bruce Blakeman can still win the New York governor's race, polls or no polls. His exhibit A is 1994, when a poll had him down 17 points and he won anyway. Around my place we don't count calves till they're on the truck, and a poll this far out is still counting them in the cow.

Blakeman has already gone after the Siena, Quinnipiac and Marist surveys showing Hochul ahead, and I agree with him. Hochul wants another term of Albany running your life, and a poll is about the only thing she's got going for her. Pataki also predicts Mamdani would have a real say in Albany if she wins, and I'd like to see how a poll explains that.