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[George II]

116. I already addressed the Yglesias article, no facts, just highly subjective comments. As for the IDC:

Yes it was formed in 2011. It really had no effect on the majority in the state senate in the 2011/2012 session, republicans already had the majority.

In the 2013/2014 session, they prevented the Democrats from having their elected majority.
In the 2015/2016 session the republicans once again regained the majority, the IDC had no effect on the party in the majority.
In the 2017 session they once again gave the republicans the "majority" (Democrats and republicans each had 31 elected Senators)
In early 2018 Governor Cuomo negotiated the dissolution of the IDC, and they rejoined the Democratic Conference.

So as I said, it only affected the Democratic majority for two or three years.

BTW, in the 2018 primary in September Cuomo easily won the Democratic nomination for Governor and six of the eight IDC former members were defeated in their primaries.

Cuomo won, 75% of IDC lost. So how was Cuomo involved in the formation of the IDC?