Forecasting New York Politics in 2016

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 6, 2016

Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette, has 40 questions for the (not-so-distant) future of New York City and state politics, looking ahead to 2016.

We discussed just a few, including:

Will Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo ever just get along?
Who'll be elected to fill the seats of Senator Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver?
Who'll win the presidential primaries in New York state?

.@TweetBenMax has 40 questions for the future of New York politics in 2016. We'll try to answer...some of them. https://t.co/3KMZbhXqYg
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 6, 2016

One of @TweetBenMax's forecasting Qs: will NY's primary vote even matter? There may not be much of a race by April. pic.twitter.com/dG8bsqPaFE
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 6, 2016

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