Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo in New York and Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada are partying like it's 1987. When Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1987, Ted Kennedy famously said “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of Americans.”
Via Maggie Haberman, Here's Cuomo's ad, taking a similar shot at Carl Paladino, with "Carl Paladino's New York":
Via Greg Sargent, here's Reid's spot attacking Sharron Angle, "Sharron Angle's Nevada":
Bork, of course, wasn't confirmed, and his name itself became an idiom for scuttled judicial nominations. Cuomo is a shoo-in, but Reid is much more dire straits. They're both aided by the fact that both of their opponents do actually hold some pretty extreme views -- a better candidate in Nevada and Reid might not even have had a fighting chance.
