'Blue wave' washes over suburbs, but doesn't flood upstate [View all]
Like a lot of them, it was an election that conveyed mixed messages. A blue wave lifted Democrats in New York on Tuesday, except where Republicans managed to stay afloat. Money dominated, except in races where the relative pauper prevailed.
Some things were more consistent. The personal problems afflicting some candidates seemed not to matter when voters went to the polls. And from one end of the state to the other, things appeared to go Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s way.
Those were some of the takeaways from Tuesday’s off-year election in which clear patterns, other than an anti-Trump backlash noted on other parts of the nation, were hard to detect.
A Democratic resurgence was in full swing in the downstate suburbs, but not so much upstate. In Westchester County, Democratic state Sen. George Latimer handily beat Republican County Executive Rob Astorino by a 57 to 43 percent margin. Though the race had been close, the outcome represented a precipitous fall for Astorino, the GOP’s 2014 gubernatorial candidate who was seen as one of his party’s best hopes to stage a rematch with the Democratic governor next year.
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