Astorino definitely carried Slaughter’s NY-25 (which, as you noted, gave Romney only 39.4% in 2012), since Astorino carried Monroe County bt 48.2% to 46.7% and the NY-25 includes only Rochester and its closer-in suburbs (thus excluding the most Republican parta of Monroe County.
As for Maffei’s NY-24 (where Romney got 41,1%), I believe that Cuomo must have carried it by a little over 1,000 votes. The NY-24 includes all of Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne Counties and part of Oswego County, and Cuomo carried Onondaga (Syracuse by such a large margin(15,030 votes as per Dave Leip) that Astorino wasn’t able to make up for it in the other counties . If the portions of Oswego County in the NY-24 voted exactly like the county as a whole, then Cuomo carried the CD by almost exactly 1,000 votes, but since the NY-24 portion of Oswego County includes the Democrat-voting City of Oswego, Cuomo’s margin must have been a bit over 1,000 votes in the CD.
Cuomo should be humiliated. He’s had attack ads against Astorino since Spring, in addition to Start NY ads, paid for by NY taxpayers.
I think you meant to say Cuomo must have carried the 25th.
I continue to be blown away by Kakto’s margin of victory in the 24th, according to an article, Maffei carried only Syracuse itself (getting a slightly higher % there than Cuomo did) and it’s adjacent suburb, the town of DeWitt, Kakto took every other town.