Michael Gormley of the Associated Press reports on LoHud.com - ” New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or “in a box.”

Paterson spoke to reporters after several days of rumors sweeping the Capitol about carousing in the governor’s mansion, all of which Paterson strongly denied.”

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