George Will on the Decline of New York

George Will has gotten me thinking about the future of New York poltiics and what effect certain iminent events will have on which party control's the state and what this will mean to the national landscape.

It's odd that George doesn't write about New York State politics more often, given how much time he spends here. None the less, in today's column, Will takes a detailed look at the race for governor in a piece which claims that whoever wins the governor's race will inherit a greatly diminished state.

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Will Spitzer have his own "Dean Scream" moment?

Scrambling for a toehold on the unfriendly, rocky cliffs of New York politics, Republicans looking for some sort of traction against the apparent Juggernaut of Eliot Spitzer's drive to become New York's next governor seem to think they've hit on a strategy. Lacking any sort of skeletons in his closet from his work as Attorney General, they are poised to portray him as angry, unlikable, and having a bad temper with a history of violent tendencies.

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