Labour sources privately suggested that tactical voting from Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters may have helped
swing the vote further in their favour in what was acknowledged to be a two horse race.
Not exact matches
Jewish voters represent a sizable portion of the Queens district's population, and an even larger portion of the district's
swing voters willing to
vote for either party, a fact
further highlighted by the announcement events of Democratic Assembly Members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng heavily highlighting the issue.
Compared to Trump, Clinton has pulled
far ahead with female voters (58 % to his 35 %) as well as white Catholics (51 % to 45 %), a
swing voting demographic.
And he has endorsed one GOP senator so
far, Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who barely beat back a primary challenge after Saland provided one of several
swing votes to enact same sex marriage.
So
far, Cuomo's remained relatively neutral, offering to back one Republican Senator, Roy McDonald and one Democratic Senator, Joe Addabbo, of Queens, who had provided the
swing votes.
Then there's to consider what might happen if Scotland
votes «Yes»; if that should happen I think there will be
swings to them everywhere, both
further ones at Holyrood, and ones at the Westminster elections that would bring them into play in places like Falkirk for example.