Andrew Cuomo Scandal: Governor’s Survival Likely

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W
hen pundits solemnly tell one another that Andrew Cuomo is “in trouble,” I hear my children saying, “Uh-oh, you’re in trouble!” In trouble is, for a kid, a parlous state, fraught with terror. Kids don’t seem to notice that there is, generally speaking, no real punishment that goes with in trouble status. Still, the state of being in trouble bothers kids because kids have a sense of shame. Cuomo does not.

So the Democratic leader of the New York state senate sent a letter calling for the governor to resign. Uh-oh, Cuomo’s in trouble!

Not really. Not if that’s as far …