Some Moran
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Sun Nov-16-03 02:40 PM
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Is Monroe County, NY (Rochester area) progressive? |
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Somebody here said it is, but Tom Golisano won the most votes in the 2002 NY gubernatorial election in Monroe. I know that the guy is from Rochester, but for him to win more votes than either Pataki or McCall, there has to be some fairly strong libertarian undercurrents there...
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SadEagle
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Sun Nov-16-03 02:56 PM
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The city area plus the small town of Brighton (as small heavily Jewish suburb) are heavily Democratic, the suburbs are heavily Republican. The county legislature is republican-controled, and most of the county-wide offices are held by Republicans. However, IIRC, the county tends somewhat Democratic on national and state-wide elections. Hard to tell about the current house delegation, since the redistricting shuffled everything -- i.e. I am represented by a Republican who lives all the way near Pennsylvania, and not the Democrat who lives like 5 minute drive away.
As for Golisano? Well, he is not only a "hometown boy" but is also running Paychex, which is pretty much the most successful business based in Rochester these days; and Golisano has heavy community involvement -- he made donations to the local children's hostpitals, the Rochester Institute of Technology, etc...
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Sun Nov-16-03 03:03 PM
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2. 2000 Presidential Election |
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Gore: 161,743 (50.90%) Bush: 141,266 (44.46%) Nader: 11,520 (3.63%) Browne (L): 510 http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/frametextj.html
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Sun Nov-16-03 03:11 PM
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Thanks for the data, first of all, confirms my recolection. Here is the result of the most recent county executive race, for constrast -- the point being that it's probably more of a 'swing' county than anything.
2003 County Executive Election: (R,C,I) Maggie Brooks 141795, 64.6% (D,WFP) William Johnson 77865, 35.4%
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