Senate Dems looking to raise $8 million
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- December
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 What is it going to take for Democrats to take over control of the state Senate next year? About $8 million, Assembly Minority Leader Malcolm Smith figures.   The Democrats need to pick up two seats to gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1965. And that was only for a year, the only break in GOP control since 1938.
 Smith said the Dems will go hard after probably four seats, including those held by Republicans Joseph Robach and James Alesi in Monroe County, Caesar Trunzo in Suffolk County and Kemp Hannon in Nassau County.
 Some other seats now held by the GOP – including tom Morahan’s in Rockland County and two in Queens- may also be in play, he said.
   The Democrats are counting on a huge turnout by Democrats because of the likelihood that Hillary Clinton will be at the top of the ticket.
 Republicans scoff at the notion of serious Democratic gains, and talk about not only holding onto all their incuments but going after two recently elected Democrats _ Andrea Stewart-Cousins in Westchester and David Valesky of the Syracuse area.
  Both sides are gearing up for what promises to be a bruising struggle next year.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
