By all appearances, David Paterson now has something he has so glaringly lacked since last year: a game plan for winning a full term in 2010.
As the Observer’s Jimmy Vielkind noted, the governor has begun employing a strategy to cultivate specific key constituencies-an aggressive push for gay marriage, for instance, aimed at winning back sympathetic liberals-and to win the daily headline wars.
In a way, it’s all elementary stuff (which makes Mr. Paterson’s previous flailing all the more galling), but it’s also evidence that Mr. Paterson still believes he can win a ‘10 campaign-and that he finally has a competent team steering his campaign ship.
