Others said they expected that with the Republican primary over, Mr. Cuomo would engage with Mr. Paladino more emphatically in the coming days.
At a separate news conference in the lobby of City Hall, he said that he was "in the middle of a general election for mayor," a not-so-subtle hint that he considered the primary over and done with, and he confidently predicted that "within a day or two the Board of Elections will confirm that I'm the Democratic nominee".
But until the invention of the presidential primary over half a century later, caucuses were everybody's standard operating procedure.
Mr. Christensen won The Chicago Tribune's endorsement for the Democratic primary over Thomas Cramer, 52, a business consultant who ran against Mr. Hyde two years ago.
My brother and sister were at New End Primary over the road, and the live-in au pair would pick us up and take us home.
The working out of these remedies has, over time, produced the modern system in which rights are seen as primary over procedure.
First he built such a commanding lead in the Republican primary over Charlie Crist, Florida's governor, that Mr Crist dropped out to run as an independent.
I personally favour the open primary over the electoral stitch-up – when the candidate is chosen only by the abdication of the other candidates, and voters have had no hand in it.
And in Republican-rich Kansas, the Democratic nominee, State Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius, defeated State Treasurer Tim Shallenburger, a conservative who had prevailed in the Republican primary over two moderates.
From Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1980 to Mr. Kerry in 2004, the candidates who won Connecticut's Democratic primary over the years share one unappealing distinction: Not one ever became president.
Donald Trump has won West Virginia's Republican primary over former rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich, who remained on the ballot despite their having dropped out of the race last week.
