Updated 11/01/2010 09:48 PM
Cuomo does some last minute campaigning in Buffalo
In the finals hours before Election Day, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo made one last swing across the state, beginning with a stop in Buffalo. Our Mark Gruga reports that Cuomo was joined on the campaign trail by the man who hopes to replace him as Attorney General.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "Are we going to do it? Are we going to do it? Let's go do it!"
Andrew Cuomo rallied the upstate troops one last time before the election with a stop at the Bennett Smith Life Center in Buffalo.
Cuomo touched on his populist themes of cleaning up Albany, empowering the people and creating jobs.
He also attacked his Republican and Conservative opponent Carl Paladino.
"Don't you dare talk about dividing people of this state," Cuomo said.
Cuomo says the Paladino campaign has done just that, pitting rich against poor, upstate against downstate.
"Playing to those divisions or trying to highlight those divisions, I think is negative, I think is counterproductive and I think it's going to be rejected soundly tomorrow," said Cuomo.
Paladino has countered these charges by saying Cuomo is afraid him, but the candidate looked anything but fearful on the final day of the campaign. In fact, Cuomo was joined by the man who hopes to replace him as Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman. Polls indicate Schneiderman is in a dead heat with Republican Dan Donovan. He's hoping Cuomo's endorsement will put him over the top.
"I am not laying off misconduct on Wall Street. I am not giving up on protecting freedom of choice. I am not going to lay down against the corruption, waste and fraud that has paralyzed our state government," Schneiderman said.
Cuomo says the election is about more than issues. It's also about what type of state New Yorkers want to have going forward.
"We are going to rise up as a people and as a state and we are going to make a powerful, sweeping, beautiful statement about what unity is all about, about what community is all about," said Cuomo.
A Siena poll released over the weekend say Cuomo leads Paladino by 25 points, but an Apex Survey out Monday says it could be as close as 13. Regardless, voters will have the final say Tuesday on Election Day.