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>> i am leaning slightly against it, to be honest. if you're putting me on the spot. they have a ballot line they need to protect. if they endorse another candidate it's not clear ha the unions that helped fund and drive their activities go with him. remember, they can endorse somebody and the trade workers, they are all free to endorse who they want. >> it gives them negotiatinging power. what do you try to extract when you have a poll like that on the table? >> that's about thork. the fusion voting in new york. most states would not give leverage to a third party. that's interesting. i want ...

Back now with our tdr 50 look at new york and a closer look at the unusual political process that exists in the empire state. it's called fusion voting, or cross-endorsement. in short, it allows candidates to run on multiple party lines. for example, they can be endorsed by both the republican party and the conservative party. then, you add up votes from all the lines into one final total, there you go. for third parties, it gives them a chance to endorse major party candidates, increasing their influence at the ballot box, and with the lawmakers that get elected. back in 2010, for example, go...

Like mayor miner and stood against others when we thought that they weren't being, in a sense, in favor of the middle class and working class and poor. >> dan, very quickly, are you going to endorse governor cuomo moe again? >> we have a process, we endorse at the end of may. we'll have to trust the process. >> i assume the deals he's made on pension stuff has got some of your members upset? >> i think people are upset about some aspects of what he's done, particularly big tax cuts to the 1%, as it's sometimes called. he's been a liberal on marriage equality, on guns, on some of the economic t...