[Alter Kaker]

The old line was that upstate should secede from New York and form a new state, thereby leaving a conservative red state and a liberal blue state. But that's not so true any more. Democrat Eliot Spitzer won 65% of the vote upstate.

[tioga]

spitzer was running ads in upstate saying he would cut taxes. Add to that the fact that no one even knew who his opponent was it's no surprise he got elected.