General Discussion

You don't just get to pretend the only accusation related to a staged prank, when 8 women who made accusations against him. You may choose not to believe them, but that does not erase the accusations.

As to believability and anonymity, four of those women were not anonymous, and the other four were known to the media who interviewed them - just as deep throat Watergate whistle blowers was known to Woodward and Bernstein.

As to whether they were Democrats: The first anonymous accuser voted for him. The second described an event which took place during a Democratic fundraiser, The third was, "the chair of her town's selectboard at the time of the alleged incident," but party affiliation was not disclosed to the reporters, and the fourth was a Democratic Congressional aid. Not that it matters.

And, since the point of this was to compare Cuomo and Franken - at least 3 of Cuomo's accusers were also anonymous (and described by similar generic identifiers).