@Diest TKO,
You wouldn't marry someone unless they gave you a decent ring? Funny, I never took you for the blingy, materialistic type Diest.
I'm not surprised at how the vote went. A lot of people who've never lived in New York think of New York (the state) as one big city, when in fact the majority of the state is fairly rural, and not really a preferred destination for back-to-the -landers as are Maine, Vermont and even New Hampshire. So you don't have that sort of liberal hippy influx or influence in New York state that you get in some of the New England states.