I don’t want to take anything away from the sincerity of his conviction on this and I assume it’s real, but if he’s thinking about a national campaign somehwere down the road, he is in exactly the right place for a Democrat right now. If he actually gets this [gay marriage] done in a big state like New York, it’ll be historic, it’ll be a landmark, and not only strengthen him with the gay constituency — which is important in Democratic politics — but also for younger voters.
— Democratic consultant Bob Shrum, in an interview with Politico’s Ben Smith, saying that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has positioned himself as a centrist in the early days of his term, but also has “put himself in position to wow liberal Democratic voters in 2016 by being the candidate most fully committed to same-sex marriage, and the one who got it done.”
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