Growing up in the Rockies, I put together the power dynamics between large numbers of rural counties and then a single urban county a long time ago, but was still surprised to see it functioning out East.

I got to New York City, witnessed the deteriorating subway, see four lane one-way avenues with no bike lanes, and wondered where the hell all that tax money we're paying goes. Then I go upstate and see all these empty — but immaculately paved — freeways, and it all kind of comes together.

It's wild that Cuomo, who is personally responsible for making sure that as little NYC money actually gets spent in NYC as possibly, had the chutzpah to think he'd be welcome running this place.

Car ownership in New York tends to signify someone from lower income and wealth brackets. Not higher.

If you live in a house out in Queens and work as a plumber then you definitely have a car.

If you live in Manhattan or Brooklyn and work for an investment bank you probably don't.

Having a car in the city can be a real pain. A lot really depends on your lifestyle, if you need one -- like if you go rock climbing every weekend, you do. If you're into restaurants and clubs, you definitely don't.

I think this would require individual level polling to get this data, blurring the data by district fuzzes things too much.