Steve Tasker
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“In the suburbs and upstate, Trump has a net positive while Hillary is a net negative,” one longtime Republican operative contended. “She’s more of a liability than many Democrats realized.”Someone posted this earlier. Confidential polling data from the New York post. Show some polls!
I'm not sure how much stock I'd really put in this. Much of upstate New York is pretty rural and leans GOP. Here's a map of the 2012 presidential election. Here's 2008, pretty similar. NY's overall political presence is pretty much carried by the NYC area. Obama dominated in 4 of the 5 boroughs in 2008, coming in with 88.7%, 85.7%, 79.4%, and 75.1% in Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. McCain won Staten Island 51.7-47.6. Those 4 Obama boroughs alone comprised 1,994,604 of his total votes in the state. McCain had a little over 2.7 million votes, total, for the entire state. Obama's numbers were even higher in those boroughs in 2012. I wouldn't expect Hillary to score as high as Obama, but I also wouldn't expect her to lose the state. Honestly, if she loses NY, she's got no shot in the rest of the country.
The GOP will score well in upstate outside of the bigger cities, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany. If Trump can manage to swing the Hudson Valley and parts of eastern Long Island, it could make things interesting, but he'd have to sway a ton of voters. NYC just wields so much power.
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So republican senators are inherently biased but an AG can not be biased? So Ashcroft, Reno, and Holder were apolitical? What kind of fantasy world do you live in?