How a five-term New York Democrat lost a House seat to a Republican

Sean Maloney, head of the influential Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, lost by less than 1% - and redistricting may have been part of it

Jack Dunnigan stood behind the counter of Pickwick Bookshop, a venerable store he owns, with its homey smell of nobly ageing paper, in the picturesque, liberal riverside town of Nyack about 30 miles north of downtown New York City, and sighed.

I had a feeling he was going to," Dunnigan said of the local Democratic congressman and national party stalwart Sean Maloney's loss to his Republican challenger, Mike Lawler, in the midterm elections.