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.
moreteasir: “to increase them while everything else I pay increases (RE Taxes also) to pay for Iraqi infrastructure while we have bridges falling here is tough for me to swallow.”
ok, so you don’t want to vote for the Democrats because they’re going to raise your taxes to pay for the mess the Republicans got us into (notwithstanding the fact we’re likely to be paying for Iraq for a much longer time under McCain). Wow, that sounds like Palin logic!
DIBS, If more Republicans were like you, they might not be as despised. I was totally apathetic 8 years ago. Thanks to GW Bush, I care about politics now!
The Park Slope signs are interesting. I don’t see too many around Bklyn and certainly not in Bed Stuy. What about Bay Ridge? I’m curious about “other Brooklyn”.
I split my time between BK and Beacon, NY. In years past, I saw enough Bush signs up here and my Kerry lawn signs were stolen a few times. This year, I’ve seen maybe 2 McCain bumper stickers and not one yard sign. Knock wood. Ok, that’s my report from upstate.
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.
Well dittoburg, we did get the useful definition of what conotes “sexual realtions” and what does not!!!
“Those who live in the past are doomed to repeat it” Prodigal Son.
Yes, I sometimes wonder how good a shape the US could have gotten into if the republicans hadn’t completely stymied Clinton’s last term with all that impeachement nonsense about his affair.
moreteasir….I don’t disagree with the Iraqi vs. US infrastructure issues. That whole Iraqi mess will continue longer than we think under McCain. If some semblance of rationality is introduced into the leadership of this country then some semblance of rationality will begin to take hold in the markets and we’ll all be far better off because of it.
If the stock market were to rise 10% on a lessening of the global fear currently gripping the psychology, believe me, we’ll make up in spades the extra 10% we may have to pay in taxes.
Obviously there will be a lot of taxes spent wastfully no matter who gets elected. Nevertheless, it is still possible to get out of a Bush-dug fiscal hole – Slick Willie did it.
Moreteasir – you should vote for Forbsey.
“PS, dear, what is it that you and What are seeing that I do not see…pray do tell so I can get my ‘go bag’ together.”
Read some History of the World type books and get back to me.
Gibbons ” Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is a great one, if long.