 In 2004, John Kerry won Suffolk County by just under 14,000 votes.The close 2004 margins followed large victories for Al Gore in Nassau and Suffolk in 2000, and many observers think the 2004 results were more of a reflection from a 9/11 bump President George W. Bush received through portions of the New York City metro area (as his numbers jumped quite a bit from 2000 in Staten Island, Rockland County, and parts of New Jersey as well) rather than a reversal of the Democratic trend.This hypothesis was proven false when in 2008 Long Island still gave the Democrat Obama a victory in both counties.