Comments on: Skelos, On Life In the Minority http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2009/01/07/skelos-on-life-in-the-minority/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: William L. Esposito http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2009/01/07/skelos-on-life-in-the-minority/comment-page-1/#comment-43006 William L. Esposito Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:29:17 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/?p=7112#comment-43006 Mr. Skelos will have to get use to being in the minority for a very long time. The 32 to 30 split will widen in the coming years. The trend in this State for the past 20 plus years is unmistakable: Democrats have been picking up seats in the State Assembly and State Senate at the expense of the Republican Party. Sheldon Silver has a supper majority in the Assembly where Republicans have been irrelevant for years. Once a seat is taken over by a Democrat it's over; Republican never recapture it later. The Democratic party gets a free ride in the four boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx) every election cycle in which Republicans are virtually shut out. As long this is the case, they have no chance of recapturing the State Senate or Assembly for that matter. In a matter of years the Democratic Party edge in the Senate will grow to 34, 36, 38, 40 to 22. The edge they enjoy in the State Assembly will increase as well. The Massachusetts-ization of this State is at hand. Get use to it! Mr. Skelos will have to get use to being in the minority for a very long time. The 32 to 30 split will widen in the coming years. The trend in this State for the past 20 plus years is unmistakable: Democrats have been picking up seats in the State Assembly and State Senate at the expense of the Republican Party. Sheldon Silver has a supper majority in the Assembly where Republicans have been irrelevant for years. Once a seat is taken over by a Democrat it’s over; Republican never recapture it later.

The Democratic party gets a free ride in the four boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx) every election cycle in which Republicans are virtually shut out. As long this is the case, they have no chance of recapturing the State Senate or Assembly for that matter.

In a matter of years the Democratic Party edge in the Senate will grow to 34, 36, 38, 40 to 22. The edge they enjoy in the State Assembly will increase as well. The Massachusetts-ization of this State is at hand. Get use to it!

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