Weather aside, what's kept New York from being like California, for better or worse, is the state Senate, which Democrats have been thisclose to flipping for years now without ever quite getting there, what with upstate's fear of the city running the whole show, and Democratic senators taking lulus (Albany - speak for bribes) and other enticements to switch teams and caucus with the GOP, and Cuomo
content with that power -
sharing arrangement that positions him at the top of the three - men - in - a-room triangle.