What is the third blue state with a Democratic stronghold other than California and New York?
Political party strength in New York New York is a Democratic stronghold and one of the "big three" Democratic states alongside California and Illinois.
Politics of Indiana Indiana has long been considered to be a Republican stronghold and is rated R+7 on the Cook Partisan Voting Index. The current governor of Indiana is Republican Eric Holcomb, and Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly. It has only supported a Democrat for president five times since 1900—in 1912, 1932, 1936, 1964 and 2008. Nonetheless, half of Indiana's governors in the 20th century were Democrats.