re: #78 iceweasel

New York State perhaps - which has had Democrats in charge of the Assembly for pretty much the last 50 years. The Senate is now in Democrat hands, and the Governor has been a Democrat since Pataki was booted in 2006. The state budget has been an absolute disaster the last couple of years - and the Democrats solution in Albany has been to increase spending and raise taxes. There hasn’t been a real serious effort to cut spending - and they are again hoping for a bailout in the form of additional federal transfer payments.

NYC has had Bloomberg, who was originally a GOP, but turned Independent (but is far closer to D than R these days). Before that? Rudy was a GOPer. But local politics in the City are largely D. The City Council is overwhelmingly D.