Gov: It’s not over till it’s over
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- February
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer used another, perhaps less preferable, way to warn against putting the cart before the horse when asked whether Democrat Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race if she doesn’t win primaries in Ohio and Texas. Democrat Barack Obama, also a U.S. senator, has become the clear frontrunner in recent weeks.
“You’re doing an autopsy on a body that’s still alive,” the governor told a scrum of reporters tonight after speaking at a state Conference of Mayors reception in Albany.
“You know, let’s wait. I think that this is a campaign that’s been very much like a Bungee jump. It’s been up and down for both candidates. It has been a tribute to Democracy,” he said.
Spitzer, who has endorsed Clinton, said he intends to vote for her. There’s a long way to go between now and Election Day, he added. Both Clinton and Obama are “superb” candidates who have debated the issues “in a way that has defined an agenda that is significantly different than the agenda I imagine of Sen. (John) McCain, whom we all respect and have enormous regard for …” Spitzer said, referring to the GOP frontrunner in the race.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
