Naah Moon,
They are right. Its the battle I fight here at FR being from New York. If you look at the county by county electoral maps for New York, from 2000 and 2004. Bush won a majority of the counties in New York State by an overwhelming majority. The problem is us rural and exurban folk, get blown out of the water by NYC, Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester which have high minority populations. Also because NY is a “liberal” state, we get everyone else’s liberals moving here. Im not ready to surrender, yet....