There is a sense of urgency for us, because the way people tend to vote Republican around here, these elections will be over in May, not November.

Memo to Governor Pataki: You can come back home. Now that the elections are over, endangered Republican candidates throughout the state no longer need to avoid being seen with you.

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

We're at less than 10 percent done with this trans (sic) planning when you consider the buses and the people.

We're at less than 10 percent done with this ... planning when you consider the buses and the people.

If nothing else, the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 have shown us that merely increasing the turnout of our base Democratic vote is not enough. With three conservative voters for every two liberals, the sheer arithmetic truth is that in a polarized electorate effectively mobilized by both major parties, Democratic candidates must capture upwards of 60 percent of the moderate vote. A candidate that cannot win south of the Mason-Dixon and west of the Mississippi is only destined to repeat the heartbreaking losses of the recent presidential elections.