[SamuraiScot]

You could nuke NYC and Albany, and NYS would still be blue.

Take a look at the NYS map of counties for the election of 2016. It's a sea of red.

[JohnBrowdie]

unfortunately, they don’t award electoral votes by surface area. it’s a matter of population centers; blighted blue counties have many, many more voters (dead ones as well as live ones) than red counties.