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Gradually Koch won the support of much of the business community and the endorsement of two of the city's three major dailies. He defeated New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo, running as the Liberal Party candidate, 50% to 42% (the Republican candidate got only 4%). Another big New York winner was Carol Bellamy, 35, an obscure but personable and articulate state senator who received 82% of the vote for city council president; she is an attractive political comer...
Koch defeated Mario M. Cuomo, Secretary of State and the Liberal Party nominee, for the third time this year. Cuomo also lost in the Democratic primary and the runoff...
Republican candidate Roy Goodman and Conservative candidate Barry H. Farber trailed far behind Koch and Cuomo...
...quiet campaign. Back home in Manhattan, he has been the same cheery liberal he has always been, fervently flailing away at the establishment. Then before he ventures out into the wilds of forgotten Long Island, Koch steps into a phone booth to emerge a new man, a super-Cuomo. Outflanking the opposition, he has come out in favor of the death penalty, thus cutting into the rich vein of blue-collar Catholic votes--a vein Cuomo, by right of birth, should be tapping. With the Jewish vote comfortably in his pocket (thanks to such stunts as his celebrated letter...
...SIMPLE FACT is that Koch's difference from his opponents is only a matter of degree. Less bizarre than Farber, better financed than Goodman, more politically subtle than Cuomo, he is the best actor for the only script that New York voters will accept. The past decade of failed idealism, followed by near-bankruptcy, has provided a political mood in the city that will accept nothing but an energetic, well-connected centrist politico, one with an aura of reform but a mind for conformity. And Koch is such a man. Clearly, anyone with the gall to mount a massive campaign...