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Here's a list of Presidents that have taken office since the last time there was not a Republican seated in New York's 23rd Congressional District.

• Ulysses S.Grant 
• Rutherford B.Hayes
• JamesGarfield 
• Chester Arthur
• Grover Cleveland 
• Benjamin Harrison
• Grover Cleveland
• William McKinley 
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Warren Harding 
• Calvin Coolidge 
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Gerald Ford 
• James Carter
• Ronald Reagan
• George H.W. Bush
• William J. Clinton
• GeorgeW.Bush
• Barack Obama

You throw some Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin into the campaign, and suddenly a Democrat is elected. A lot of Republicans looked at a Palin-ite Republican and a moderate Democrat and chose the Democrat. I'm heartened by that. Democrats had a rough night overall last night, but I take solace that the Republicans that won did so by taking a moderate stance. 

The Erick Erickson faction of the Republican party is very, very loud, but also very, very small. Cable TV and the internet has distorted their influence, so if they keep trying to "take down" moderate Republicans, I wish them the very best. That just means Democrats will be elected.