FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
And it's not impossible, the Republican party did very well here for a long time. You forget, Northeast Republicans are not your republicans. Here, they are fiscally conservative, but tend to be socially liberal. You won't find them running for state office on an anti-choice, anti-gay platform. They get elected.
And passing laws that put people in jail for 30 years or so for drug crimes. A la Rockefeller drug laws. Seriously, how many Republicans are in the New York state assembly? 30% of them?
Republicans can capture the executive spot, but not the legislature, and so they never really hold a lot power.