Republican weather for Senate race?
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- February
- 26
   Early weather report from the North Country on this special-election day for a state Senate seat: possibly Republican precipitation.
So far there has been rain in Oswego County and some snow in Jefferson County, Chris McKenna, press secretary to the Republican candidate Will Barclay, reported in a radio interview today.
The hopeful Republican theory is that voters in Oswego County, where Barclay is from, won’t be deterred by some rain from voting, while snow may slice the turnout in Jefferson County (the Watertown area), the stronghold of Democrat Darryl Aubertine.
Every angle is being explored here, because if Aubertine wins, the Republican margin the Senate – a chamber the GOP has controlled for all but one year since 1938 – would dwindle to one seat. The Democrats are expected to try to get at least one GOP senator to change parties if Aubertine is victorious. In a tied chamber, the Democrats would rule, since Democratic Lt. Gov. David Paterson has the tie-breaking vote.
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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. 
