> In New York at least, this turnout tsunami is causing changes we never even
> thought about. We all thought it wouldn't change anything if we voted since
> we were never in question. We all just made enormous lines because people
> wanted to be part of it. But now that they've added up the votes it turns
> out that there were so many Democratic voters that suddenly, without
> expecting it, the Democrats now control both houses of the state legislature
> for the first time since the depression.
That's not exactly true. Spitzer's plan to flip the Senate, and the careful machinations he set in place, were hardly secrets.
> And if I heard the TV right, the entire state congressional
> delegation is now Democratic -- there isn't a single Republican, not
> upstate, not in Staten Island, not in Buffalo, nowhere.
Peter King still has his seat on Long Island. I'm not sure about the rest of the state.
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