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brooklynite

(94,581 posts) Wed Aug 24, 2022, 11:53 AM Aug 2022

Breakdown of NY-10 voting patterns

Dan Goldman took the West Village (despite Jones being the first Black Gay member of Congress) Tribeca, the Financial District and Battery Park City, and upper income Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill

Niou took Chinatown and Park Slope (most progressive part of the District)

Rivera took Lower East Side (her Assembly district), Sunset Park (Hispanic) and Red Hook (Public Housing)

Mondaire Jones won almost no election districts

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Breakdown of NY-10 voting patterns (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2022 OP

I can say this as a gay man dsc Aug 2022 #1

I don't think it was racism... brooklynite Aug 2022 #2

He is closer to NYC than dsc Aug 2022 #3

That doesn't mean anything... brooklynite Aug 2022 #4

dsc

(52,162 posts)

1. I can say this as a gay man

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2022, 12:22 PM

Aug 2022

we haven't always been the best when it comes to racism. Jones should have done better in the village.

brooklynite

(94,581 posts)

2. I don't think it was racism...

Reply to dsc (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 24, 2022, 12:38 PM

Aug 2022

I think Jones never convinced voters that someone from Rockland Country knew anything about NYC.

dsc

(52,162 posts)

3. He is closer to NYC than

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 24, 2022, 01:51 PM

Aug 2022

either of the candidates running for my district are from me.

brooklynite

(94,581 posts)

4. That doesn't mean anything...

Reply to dsc (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 24, 2022, 01:58 PM

Aug 2022

This was a Democratic Primary. Voters had a range of choices. Picking a male doesn't mean you're sexist. Picking a White guy doesn't mean you're racist.

I didn't vote for him because his campaign got very negative. Does that make me racist?

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