A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23…
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23 in other parties and 117 who did not list a party. That breakdown is echoed by the overwhelmingly Democratic makeup of Assembly District 52, as well as that of Brooklyn, which voted 79 percent for Senator John Kerry in 2004.” The McCain supporters are old school Slopers, writes the Times: residents from long before the Manhattan exodus who say the block was full of Roman Catholics and firemen when they arrived. But donkeys and elephants alike seem to be getting along: old and new, Obama and McCain-lovers. As one Democratic neighbor said about his neighbor’s signs, “To me, that says the person’s possibly open to some dialogue.
An Outpost in the Blue Sea of Brooklyn [NY Times]
Photo by moralesdirect.
Of course Obama will win. The idiots of this country want CHANGE!
Too bad CHANGE will drive jobs to China by the millions.
Obama and his goal of “spreading around the wealth” is exactly what this country does not need right now. Obama’s promises to create “hundreds of thousands of government sponsored union jobs in alternative energy” if executed, will be the biggest waste of tax payer money since the Iraq war.
Many of the same idiots that voted for Bush are now voting for Obama because once again they want CHANGE. In fact, Obama is Bush in sheep’s clothing, just with different window dressing.
Instead of a pointless Mideast war, we’ll get massive increased taxation of big business, subsequent systemic job loss and years of sever economic depression.
The majority of the folks in this country are frankly too damn stupid to understand the fragility of our economy right now. The idiot masses think Obama the CHANGE candidate will fix things since he’s so different from Bush .
What a load of crap!
Breadlines here we come.
Simpler solution: crown Bloomberg and eliminate this tedious veneer of democracy altogether.
Simple solution Snark. If they have the votes, they should move up the vote to today!!!!!!
This just in:
Papers Filed to Block Term Limits Vote
Two City Council members filed a petition Wednesday morning in State Supreme Court seeking a restraining order that would bar the Council from voting Thursday on a bill that would allow Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and most of the city’s elected officials to serve a third four-year term.
The petition also asks the court to reverse a ruling made by the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board last week that allows Council members to modify, extend or abolish term limits even if they will directly benefit from the change.
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There are 51 people in the Council; 35 of them are serving their second term and will have to give up their seats if term limits are not expanded. The Council is scheduled to vote on the mayor’s bill on Thursday, unless the courts decide to grant the restraining order.
Mr B I’m sure there’ll be a longer one on Monday if you post something on the election!!!!
Besides, Sarah still has a few more public appearances.
bitter book buyer
That’s just how I avoid having buyer’s remorse…
Longest thread since the days of guest posting?
Just in……
Obama holds a 14 point lead over Republican presidential
nominee McCain in a Pew Research Center poll released today. The survey, taken from Oct. 16-19, shows Obama supported by 52 percent of registered voters and McCain backed by 38 percent.In late September, the Pew poll showed Obama with a 7 percentage point lead.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll put Obama’s support at 52 percent of voters to McCain’s 42 percent, the biggest lead Obama has had over McCain in the poll since both men won their parties’ nominations. The survey, conducted from Oct. 17-20, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.