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Paterson Scores Record Low Approval Rate
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — New York voters disapprove 60% to 28% of the job Gov. David Paterson is doing, the lowest approval ever for a New York Governor, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. In addition, 63% say that he does not deserve to be elected to a full four-year term. Paterson's approval is so low that 53% say he should announce now that he won't run for election to a four-year term next year, while 39% say he can restore his reputation and should run next year. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, with a near-record high 75% to 14% approval rating, crushes Paterson in a Democratic primary 61% to 18%. Said pollster Maurice Carroll: "The slide started with the ...

Spitzer's return
Ben Smith's Blog —   Eliot Spitzer, chastened, says he's trying "balance" his "obligation" to speak out on the corporate scandals of the moment with the pain the return to discussion of his fall in a prostitution scandal and the need to confront his "gremlins" causes his family. He also, for the first time, took a question about how long he'd been frequenting prostitutes. "Not frequently, not long in the grand context of my life," he said Turning to the economy, he called for breaking up large financial companies, and blamed regulators, not the law, for the failure to monitor those companies. Spitzer is ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... monumental accomplishment that has, and will continue, to benefit both consumers and providers of financial services. In fact, his only complaint was that, in the two years after Gramm-Leach-Bliley had become law, not nearly enough non-bank companies had "taken advantage of the strategic freedom authorized by the Act" by becoming financial holding companies. I'd be curious to hear his thoughts on that subject now. This is the next governor of New York? Even with a weakened Democratic incumbent, I think not. ...