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.
Ditto – I wish your summary was at the top of the thread, it would have saved me half an hour of my life that I will never get back.
Except I already knew the last part of your summary.
dittoburg: you should write Cliff Notes.
BRG – In summary, Robin Hood is being elected, the Evil Empire is about to fail, and everyone is a douche nozzle.
Done with my work for the day and I’m ready to join the thread. What did I miss??
260+ posts…whoaza!! I think Mr. B should head out to NJ and get 51 McCain bumper stickers.
sam, I agree.
Yes, of course. The Cuban embargo will go in the first 100 days. He will shake things up. And things need to be shaken, not stirred.
I kinda thought (hoped) that Obamas agenda was to bring “reason” back into Government and move away from the dogma and incompetence we have been enjoying
Sam – you’re expecting him to finally drop that ridiculous embargo?
Perhpas he’s referring to the phenomenon of the subset of (dreaming) people who vote against their best interests by voting for candidates who will not protect them, but in fact protect the incomes and livelihoods on those in income classes above them. They do this because they anticipate (soon) becoming part of that class, but in fact they never do.