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.
New Party (United States) The New Party was a third political party in the United States that tried to re-introduce the practice of electoral fusion. In electoral fusion, the same candidate receives nomination from more than one political party and occupies more than one ballot line. Fusion was once common in the United States but is now commonly practiced only in New York State, although it is allowed by law in seven other states. The party was active from 1992 to 1998. (There had been an earlier, unrelated New Party in 1968 that ran Eugene McCarthy for President.)