A few recent examples illustrate the point. The 99th Assembly District, covering parts of Columbia and Dutchess counties, is so safely Republican that in 1996 no Democrat could be found to run against the incumbent Patrick Manning.
David L. Cingranelli, “New York: Powerful Groups and Powerful Parties,” in Interest Group Politics in the Northeastern States, ed. Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive S. Thomas (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), p.
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