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.
BB will still be envious no matter what, theres no cure from political events for that, it has to come from within.
fsrq – Bloomy/ or Quinn intend to raise city income taxes too.
Salaried NYCers will have the highest marignal rates in the country.
Balls – how does your 3:14pm analysis hold up if McCain doesnt make it through his term (death or disability) and Palin becomes president?
fsrq – did you seriously ask that question at 2.44 or did you have a momentary aberration in your logical though processes?
billyboomer – I’m voting for Obama so you can f-off yourself – but……
the increased tax liability is likely to be much higher – more like $15,000 on my 300,000 salary b/c (while unclear) it does appear that Obama supports lifting the salary cap on Social Security Taxes (6.2%)
Scary part is, that might be the first thing billyboomer and I agree on!
IronBalls, “McCain has voted with President Bush 100% of the time in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007.” How is he different again?
In reality Balls, the tax rates are not going to change substantially or quickly. I don’t think that taxes are a major issue here.
Glad to have someone step in and add a note of sobriety to what has become a downward spiral here billyboomer.
Ok Dave,
McCain is pretty much in the middle politically and he believes less government is better government. He’s got a proven track record to back up his rhetoric.
Obama has lots and lots of promises to spend tax payer money, which he keeps changing, for that matter, and no record to back up his words. He’s made zero significant changes to this country as a US Senator and McCain has made many. Throughout McCain’s career he’s proven himself to be one of the most non-party affiliated senators in the entire senate. Folks buy up Obama’s McBush bs, but McCain is nothing like Bush and never has been.
Regarding social equality issues, in one of the recent debates when asked whether he believed in gay marriage, Obama repeated McCain’s answer practically verbatim. And of course McCain placated the conservative right by picking Palin, but who seriously thinks abortion will ever be outlawed in this country?
If you folks believe free market capitalism and low taxes for all are important to the future of this country, McCain is the clear choice. If you think people who are financially successful should subsidize those who aren’t, to the detriment of jobs and economic growth, vote for Obama.
It’s a very simple choice.