This year, that same state party is being cast in a different role – the lead in a complicated but largely successful story that ends with New York’s perennially blundering Democratic operation picking off Republican incumbents in the US House and ...

Ticket-splitting used to be common and the swing-state down-ballot results show split tickets still can determine the outcome of key races.

As grim election results continue to roll in, Democrats are staring down the barrel of a likely Republican sweep of the White House and both houses of Congress. But boosted by a strong rebound in New York,