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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Great Political Sort Continues

By Marc Ambinder

Nov 4 2009, 4:15 PM ET Comment

New York's  House delegation is now 27-2 Democratic, or 93%.  (If you add in the senators it goes up to 94%.)  For comparison, Texas's House delegation is 63% Republican, Florida's is 60% Republican, and California's (counting Garamendi) is 64% Democratic.
 
In recent memory, has such a large state been so totally dominated by a single party? The largest I can think of are Massachusetts today (100% Dem) and Oklahoma in the late '90s (100% GOP).

While we're at it: Why has the GOP collapsed in rural upstate New York but not in rural central Pennsylvania?  I know there are cultural differences between the two (Yankee vs. Scots-Irish) but it's a striking divide nonetheless.


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