By a staggering margin, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer '81 won the Democratic Party nomination for New York governor Tuesday night.
With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Spitzer led with 81 percent of the vote, totaling more than 550,000 votes, the Associated Press reported. Opponent Thomas Suozzi, county executive of Nassau County, Long Island, received 19 percent of the vote, with about 130,000 votes.
Spitzer, who announced his gubernatorial candidacy in December 2004, will now face former Republican state assemblyman John Faso in the general election on Nov. 7. Spitzer leads in all major polls. A Sept. 11 Zogby poll found him leading Faso 60.9 percent to 25.8 percent.
At Princeton, Spitzer was elected USG chairman, the position now called president, in the middle of his sophomore year and served through the middle of his junior year. After graduating with a degree from the Wilson School, he went on to Harvard Law School.
Spitzer worked in private firms and the Manhattan district attorney's office before running unsuccessfully for state attorney general in 1994. He ran again in 1998 and won, becoming known for pursuing high-profile cases against the financial sector that previous attorney generals avoided. He was reelected in 2002.
Current New York governor George Pataki has a 42 percent approval rate, the sixth lowest in the country. After promising to resign after two terms, Pataki won a third term in 2002. With decreasing popularity in his third term, Pataki announced in July 2005 that he would not run for a fourth term.
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