I doubt the redistricting has anything to do with it. Queens is probably the biggest "melting pot" of ethnicities in the entire country, and it's residents, as a whole, are overwhelmingly Democrats. A Democrat shouldn't have lost in ANY Queens district, let alone Forest Hills.

My job took me to that area constantly. I was a union rep for the funeral directors at a chapel on Queens Boulevard, just off Union Turnpike. I know the area and the people well, and I'm absolutely SHOCKED about this. I didn't even put stock in any of the polls that had Weprin trailing. I thought it was a lot of hot air. But I was wrong.

I'm not sure if this is a harbinger for Obama, but it's definitely a warning, at the very least.