Kathy Hochul’s Improbable Turnaround

On many mornings, as New York City is waking up, a diminutive grandmother from Buffalo puts on sneakers and a baseball cap and takes a 45-minute walk with her husband around the streets near their apartment on Manhattan’s East Side. Her security detail keeps its distance, and hardly anyone seems to recognize Kathy Hochul on these strolls, even though she has been the governor of New York for the past five years. Not many big-state governors enjoy such anonymity, but the spotlight has been slow to find the 68-year-old Hochul.…

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