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Despite some wins, state GOPers clouded in gloom

Both Sen. Dean Skelos and Assemb. Robert Barra - their names proudly displayed in big orange type in the storefront window of their home Rockville Centre Republican Club - had coasted to re-election Tuesday.

But the place had the feel of a funeral, right down to the way people smoked and looked at their shoes, and told old stories and hugged goodbyes on the Sunrise Highway sidewalk, once...

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