I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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There are a number of metrics you could use to answer the question, how blue is New York state?

By blue I mean likely to vote for a Democrat and the answer to how blue is very.

There are twice as many registered Democrats as there are Republicans here.

A Republican is not one statewide office in two decades and Joe Biden won New York by 23 points.

Which is why it's so strange the last week as Democrats all across the country looked at midterm results

and heaved a sigh of relief. Democrats in New York cringed after suffering embarrassing losses.

And so we're looking at New York is this sort of this curious singular case.

And we're left to wonder, well, okay, why was there a red wave that started on the island

and seemingly crested somewhere around upstate New York?

And why didn't it happen anywhere else?

Jimmy Vielkind is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

He says the last few days have involved a lot of finger pointing among local politicals.

But before we get into all that, let's just talk about the numbers.

At the moment, New York's got 19 Democratic Congress people.

Next year it is set to have 15.

One of the most breathtaking losses for New York Dems was in the 17th district.

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