Barbara Strangfeld

The Denise O'Donnell campaign has another announcement of upstate support, touting "landslide" votes from the county committees in Columbia and Putnam, which join the Broome, Rensselaer, Chautauqua and Erie organizations in backing her candidacy.

It's always a nice idea, in theory: the candidate of upstate New York, the perennially ignored constituency, rides a wave of northerly support while the rest of the field splits the city and suburbs into little pieces.

We'll have to see about the surprises that await us at the convention in Buffalo, but I suspect the problem for her will be the usual one, that too few of the state's Democrats live in places like Chautauqua County for those endorsements to matter.

It's a simplistic analysis, admittedly, but for now, the math doesn't seem to work out no matter how you add it up.

She'll just have to hope for the rapid onset of Cuomo-fatigue in the Democrat-rich areas around the city.

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