AHC: United States president of Italian descent

The issue of the general national view of Italian-Americans aside, neither Cuomo can be elected president.

Mario Cuomo was out of step with the Zeitgeist in the Democratic Party in 1988 and 1992. The party wanted a "New" or Reagan or "Third Way" Democrat, a Gary Hart, a Bill Clinton, an Al Gore, a Joe Biden. An old school liberal would have gotten their clock cleaned in the primaries. Thats why Cuomo never actually got in the car to that fueled up Jet at Albany International Airport to fly to New Hampshire.

And Andrew Cuomo is far too much a one of those kinds of Democrats, and unlike say Hillary Clinton can't run away from that record because his war against the Teacher's Union and State Funding of... Anything literally just happened. Yeah he's trying to change things now, but thats because he knows he never can be President, and just wants to beat his Father's three terms and get that fourth term that no one ever gets here.

Mario was the main contender and declined to run because Bush was insanely popular following Desert Storm and everyone figured he had reelection in the bag.

I agree on Andrew, though. He has a tarnished record and would be too unpopular to win a nomination, let alone an election.
 
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