Another debate with Gov. Andrew Cuomo giving little time to issues facing upstate New York. Debating Republican Marc Molinaro on Tuesday, the sole upstate-centric question was about whether the Buffalo Bills should get a new stadium.

“I'm not at the new stadium point yet. We worked very hard to keep the Bills. We've worked very hard in upstate New York. Outmigration was a very big problem for many years. Buffalo was sort of the epicenter of it. We've turned it around,” said Cuomo.

Molinaro used the opportunity to knock Cuomo's handling of the upstate economy, which has especially struggled compared to New York City over the last decade.

“There are whole communities being hollowed out because the economic policies that you have embraced have produced more indictments than they have real jobs,” said Molinaro.

But that was the end of the upstate portion of the hour-long discussion. League of Women Voters Legislative Director Jennifer Wilson says the debate could have offered voters outside of the metropolitan area a lot more -- and boosted turnout on Election Day in the process.

“I think if a lot of these candidates actually did put some focus on upstate, we'd see the turnout numbers increase, we'd see the participation increase and we'd actually see people getting involved with these elections,” said Wilson.

The League of Women Voters will host a candidate debate on November 1 in Albany at the College of Saint Rose. Molinaro has agreed to participate, along with independent party candidates Howie Hawkins, Stephanie Miner and Larry Sharpe.

“In a state like New York where we have so many different parties and we genuinely have so many candidates who run on all of these different party lines, I think there would be a benefit to people being mandated to debate ahead of the election,” said Wilson.

Cuomo so far has not accepted an invitation to attend that debate.