THUNDER HANDS
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:18 AM
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Where I Live, Hillary Represents The Middle Class |
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Obama, the poor and the rich.
It's odd.
I'm on Long Island, and the two areas where Obama did really well on Tuesday were the towns of Hempstead, Roosevelt, Sag Harbor and Southampton.
I'm sure you've all heard of Southampton, it's where the rich celebrities vacation in the summer. Sag Harbor is in the Hamptons, it's where the rich live when they're not living in NYC. Those were Obama's best spots in Suffolk County.
Roosevelt is the poorest community on Long Island. It's almost exclusively black. Hempstead is a mixed cultural town, some whites, a lot of blacks and hispanics. Those were Obama's biggest towns in Nassau County.
Clinton won virtually everywhere else, which was mostly middle class, to upper-middle class white suburban neighborhoods.
I got this information from Newsday, which did a breakdown in the paper today.
How did Obama or Clinton do in your area, if your paper did a breakdown by town?
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:24 AM
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1. the hometown of ronald the sainted one of all that is republican |
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voted strong for obama and hillary. we almost matched the same amount of republican votes. after voting in this god awful hell hole for 40 years, this is the best showing ever for a democratic primary.
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:35 AM
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3. Yes, the poor and the educated |
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That's what we heard that Obama attracted in the beginning. How in SamHill did the attraction migrate to the educated ELITE with Hillary attracting the working class?
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:31 AM
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2. Rural county in Missouri. |
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Third largest state college in Missouri located in my county, also a military base. One site said she won with 54% while the local paper said she had 65% of the vote.
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:09 AM
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7. It was more lopsided in SW Missouri-edit |
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Edited on Fri Feb-08-08 01:13 AM by petersond
McDonald Co...very poor county, not many dems either.
In todays paper, HRC took home roughly 1100 votes, BHO took home 600 and change....
ETA:I went and got the paper, to get exact numbers: From the McDonald County Press
Hillary-1,060 votes
Obama-403(I was way off)
Edwards-55
Richardson-3
Kucinich-2
Biden-2
Dodd-1
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:11 AM
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8. As I've said for the past day or so. |
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She won the state while he won KC,St Louis and Columbia. That was all he needed.
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:14 AM
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11. Yes, thats what the numbers say, btw, I edited for exact |
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numbers for the Dem ticket here.
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:46 AM
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4. Here's the NY Times map for all of NY State |
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http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/NY.htmlIf you hover over a county, you can see the % breakdowns. Doesn't give the level of detail you're talking about, but does show some interesting trends. Looks roughly like Obama did best in some of the counties with highest % college grads (Tompkins, Westchester at least). Trying to remember where I saw a graphic of education throughout the state but I know those 2 counties were in the top 5.
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Fri Feb-08-08 12:47 AM
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I don't read newsday, but I did vote HRC. IMHO New Yorkers have seen her do a good job and have observed her work. I wonder why some hate her so much?
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:07 AM
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6. a blog about Rochester (Monroe Co.) results |
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:12 AM
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9. Western Mass: Hillary = More conservative blue collar areas; Obama = More educated, progressives |
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:12 AM
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10. In Tompkins County... |
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Obama won in Ithaca but also in most of the towns within the county (so there's more to it than the college student phenomenon - had to be at least college employees doing the voting). http://www.tompkins-co.org/boe/2008/Pres_Primary/Results_Pres_Primary.htm
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Fri Feb-08-08 01:17 AM
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12. Flava Flav And Howard Stern Are From Roosevelt |
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Barack Obama does well with African Americans of all incomes and does well among more affluent and educated whites...The latter might be skewing your interpetation of the correlation between income and support for Obama...
I live in a fairly affluent area of Central Florida... Those that weren't Republican were for Obama...
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