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So the reason McCall is

So the reason McCall is making such a poor showing here, apparently, is that he's out of money; spent it all on the primaries against Andrew Cuomo, the never-never candidate who, as you may recall, managed to drop out of the race after costing McCall the maximal amount of money. Democratic sources in the now say there's now a better than 50% chance that he'll finish behind Golisano, which means that the Independence Party will precede the Democratic on the ballot for the next four years. I won't venture a guess as to whether or not New York voters are so stupid that this will actually make a difference in the party's standings here.

Now the Democratic Party is telling the campaign they won't help him unless he gets his numbers up, which is idiotic, because he's had no money for media, running against two candidates that are saturating the airwaves. It's probably too late, but if Democratic readers want to put a little money in, or lean on the party to do so, it would help avoiding a seriously embarassing incident. It's going to be a nice black eye if one of the most reliably Democratic regions in the country drops the Democrats below the party of Ross Perot. Full disclosure: McCall isn't going to win. But hey, at least the Democrats could hold their head up in the state.