By Najib Aminy

As Barack Obama closed in the 2008 Presidential election, Brian X. Foley (D) defeated New York State’s 36-year-incumbent senator Caeser Trunzo (R) in the Third State District. Foley’s win over Trunzo secured a democratic majority in the state senate leaving democrats in complete control of New York State for the first time in forty years. Foley, the former Brookhaven Supervisor, ousted Trunzo recording 61% of the votes.

By Lauren Cioffi

For many Republicans at Stony Brook University, their right to exercise their political affiliation only took place at the voting booth. Unlike some Democrats who proudly wore pins and held signs on campus cheering “Barack the Vote,” the Republicans were nowhere to be found.

Alex Chamessian, editor of the Patriot, explained the reason behind the silence of the Republican voice on campus. “There is a fear you hold to these Republican sentiments,” Chamessian said. “Unless you want to be ostracized by your peers.”

By Sean Moore and Joe Incantalupo

The somber tone seemed uniform throughout the convention room, hallways and lobbies of the Suffolk County Republican Committee headquarters tonight in Holtsville.

Two televisions on clothed tables were tuned into CNN and FOX news, causing nervous republicans to turn and glare at Obama's lead.

"McCain was scattered, he didn't hammer [the] issue," said Frank Tantone who serves on the executive committee in Islip. "He was talking about corporate greed one day then taxes the next. He's in a lot of trouble."