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.
Mr. B’s cunning plan to elicit a 100+ post is working.
I’m voting for Charles Barron, he’s the guy to be in charge.
“FSRQ, I’m one of those douches you speak of. I don’t advertise my political views because I think I’m going to sway opinion. I do it to stick it to the right.” – rh
Doesn’t that explanation make you a douche?????
and that ignores the fact that generally in places like NYC, your sign simply leads any thinking right-leaning person to conclude you are a moronic sheep who likes to engage in empty gestures (i.e. you are sticking it to no one).
And I do think Bloomberg should be able to run for a third term but that might be my republican side talking.
If you don’t want him to win a third term then don’t vote for him. You can have a liberal democrat back in charge of NYC with Quinn and see where the crime statistics go then.
Sorry to go off topic!!! Hope I don’t start something here. 😉
DIBS – I’m sure the stock market will recover but you don’t seriously think US hegemony will continue to last do you? Regardless of the stock market situation no one country/empire can expect to last forever.
Anyway, even if we do play second fiddle within 20 years, it won’t be so bad.
Dave- THANK YOU!
Any decline can be reversed PS. No, I don’t really think you are the What. The What was predicting the Great Depression all over again. He was not predicting anything vis a vis the stock market. That was DOW8000. Indeed, interest rates have fallen which is supportive of a recovery sooner than if interest rates would rise, which was what he was predicting. Homes are still SELLING here in brooklyn and they are selling for prices that nowhere near reflect the end of the world.
I do not get the anti-tax/anti-Govt crowd this time around.
Of course I do not want to pay more in taxes (and I will) and of course we have to try to arrange the tax burden in such a way as to limit its anti-growth effects as much as possible but we are FIGHTING TWO WARS and are trying to SAVE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. These things cost money and since all these expensive projects are designed to ‘save’ our society, those that benefit the most from our society have to (and have the most incentive to ) pay. Its simple.
Think about an extreme example – if our society truly collapsed – alot of rich guys would be kicked out of their homes and have their wives taken by some uneducated violent monster under the threat (or use)of force;
What if McCain had an 8 pt lead over Obama?