- Watertown NY By Hans Wilder Watertown, New York sits in a rare position in American politics. While the rest of the country huddles into red or blue corners, this city of hard workers, Fort Drum families, small businesses, a couple of hundred homeless people and no-nonsense taxpayers voted almost perfectly down the middle in the last presidential showdown between Harris and Trump. And now, as the federal government snaps back open after a chaotic shutdown, residents here are watching something the national media doesn’t want to admit out loud: the Democrats folded, fast, and for one very simple reason — they lost control of the board. Let’s call it what it is. This isn’t the Harris era anymore.This is…