Here’s GOP state comptroller candidate Harry Wilson’s TV ad touting his “clean sweep” of the three major downstate daily newspapers – a hat trick his campaign maintains has never before been accomplished by a Republican statewide candidate (that’s clarified, as per the commentor).

Wilson spokesman Bill O’Reilly notes the last time a challenger landed the support of this trio was in 1976 (it was Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and he beat James L. Buckley, the Conservative-Republican incumbent; the seat had not been held by a Democrat since the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968)

Wilson’s campaign announced this morning that he had received his 30th newspaper endorsement – from the Auburn Citizen, which has a fairly conservative editorial page, as these things go.

Although the GOP political newcomer had landed the lion’s share of newspaper endorsements, DiNapoli has received a few nods, most notably from his hometown paper, Newsday.

Wilson is also running dead tree ads that tout his upstate endorsements, but isn’t doing that on the air.

This weekend’s Siena poll that found the comptroller’s race to be a dead heat also showed Wilson is still trailing DiNapoli in the name recognition department. He recently added another $1.1 million of his own cash to the campaign kitty to fund a last-minute blitz.

The Wilson campaign is also doing robocalls, tele-town halls and a last-minute satellite tour today. We’ll know tomorrow if it was enough to put him over the top.

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