From Rasmussen Reports:

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has a better than two-to-one lead over incumbent Governor David Paterson in next year’s likely Democratic Primary gubernatorial showdown.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Democratic Primary voters in the Empire State finds Cuomo ahead of Paterson 61% to 27%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.

This is the first Rasmussen poll of New York’s Democratic Primary. Earlier general election polling showed Cuomo leading Rudy Giuliani but Giuliani leading Paterson.

In the primary competition, Cuomo captures 66% of the male vote and 57% of women. Older voters give the challenger even larger majorities over Paterson, the state’s first African-American governor who succeeded to the office in March 2008 after Elliot Spitzer resigned because of a sex scandal.

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