My sympathy to you if by "western New York" you mean Erie County. It doesn't get much bluer than that.
Yes unfortunetly I live in Erie Co. and yes it is very, very "blue" in more ways than one. There was a voting district in the inner city of Buffalo that went 99.8% for Hillary! in her senatoral election. Some districts were more than 80% for Kerry in the last Presidential election. And of course we have only one daily paper here and it is a liberal rag. If not for my conservative friends here (yes there are a few) I would go crazy. Thanks for your sympathy though. I need it.