Via the comments on The Albany Project comes something striking. First, this map: The shades of red - pink, really - and blue represent the registration advantages of either party in the State of New York by county. Think that looks good for the republic party? It doesn't. This map: ...shows the shift in party registration between 1996 and 2007. Credit goes to Ortcutt over at TAP, who crunched the numbers. The republic party in New York is dying, folks. Joe Mondello is sitting shiva over a warm corpse that still twitches occasionally, but ever less frequently.