What's going on: On primary day, are NY voters disillusioned?

Also: No GOP compromise on tax cuts; sick American rescued from Antarctica.

The Associated PressWhile many New York voters seem to have given up on reforming state government, gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has inspired some passion, especially in the Buffalo area. "He's kind of crazy, but he really wants something different from government," Frank Klug told The New York Times.

From The New York Times:

Uprising. Revolt. Judgment day. These are the words on the lips of aspiring insurgent candidates across New York, Republicans and Democrats alike, who have campaigned for months on hopes that a wave of voter anger will carry them to victory and upend the entrenched political establishment in Albany.

Yet on the eve of the first major statewide election in four years, many voters are striking a markedly different chord. They are not bursting with rage, but spent with exhaustion. Disappointed and hopeless, many are disdainful of Albany’s would-be white knights and skeptical of the rhetoric of change.

“All they’re doing is musical chairs,” Michael Alton, 59, a registered Democrat, said Monday as he walked his dog along Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx. “There’s no reason to vote. State government isn’t up to the challenge.”

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