Amid the singing of a rowdy bunch, New York gets a new governor and a new Attorney General.

DEM, WOR
Andrew Cuomo
Campaign Website: http://www.andrewcuomo.com/home.asp

REP, IND, CON
Jeanine Pirro
Campaign Website: http://www.jeaninepirro.com

LBT
Chris Garvey (Libertarian)
Campaign Website: http://home.att.net/~chrisgarvey/home.htm

GRE
Rachel Treichler (Green)
Campaign Wesite: http://www.serve.com/ecobooks/voterachel

SWP
Martin Koppel (Socialist Workers' Party)

The new Siena Poll is out; here are the numbers, with 22 days to go:

Patti Smith closed down CBGB last night. The New York Times writes an inappropriately dignified article about it.

Also in the Times: republicans are writing off Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Montana Senate seats. They're now trying to build a 'firewall' in Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee. On Friday, via Time Magazine, their 'firewall' was Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee.

Al Pirro moans that he's not getting enough attention, says the Albany Times-Union. If I may correct the gentleman, I think we've all heard more than we ever wanted to know about him, thank you very much.

Speaking of Jeanine, she debated Andrew last night, in case you missed it.

The Hillary-McCain kitty squabble continues in Ben Smith's newest column. As I laid out several months ago, here, there are good reasons to believe that neither of these two will be the 2008 nominee.

Lastly, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle urges voters to love America, and therefore, to vote Democrat.  read more »

This is too funny. Jeanine Pirro, the embattled republican standard-bearer in the Attorney General race, has a new ad out.

The punch line is: "Andrew, attorney generals can't hide".

Problem is, that would be "attorneys general". Apparently, nobody on the Pirro campaign speaks English well enough to have caught that little malapropism in their newest statewide ad.

Someone please put this woman out of her misery. Make her go away. I can't take it anymore.