Sam Morris wrote:
  > Don't forget, not all urbanites voted blue.
> 
> In the big cities you have a higher concentration of
> both poor people and minorities that all tend to vote
> blue.
> Also there are the haves vs. the have-nots. In NY the
> business world votes red, the ones that have to work
> to keep making it. Look at North Shore LI and
> Westchester where all of the wealthy Wall Street crowd
> hang their hats. All Red. The people that either don't
> work, welfare, or have secure jobs, unions, and
> tenured professors vote blue. Only part that doesn't
> figure in is the Media and Hollywood. Oh yeah, the old
> money wealthy also votes blue. The Kerry's and
> Kennedy's that inherit money. There are plenty of them
> in the North East.
> 

Yes and no.  If you look at the Dems and their ability to close the gap 
for money raised, you will see a lot of the money has come from Wall St. 
  The Journal did a report about this.  Still, some of the biggest 
donors are Republican Wall Street vets.  O'Neil, CEO of ML, is a huge 
Bush supporter.  He was one of the first to reach Ranger status.

I can't remember if the Journal stated that on a whole, Wall Street 
donated more to the Dem side or if it was really close.  But the idea 
they put forward is that I-bankers and movie people share a common 
trait.  They get wealthy before they get old and jaded and are more 
likely to vote Dems.

The one area where it doesn't seem possible for the Repubs to catch up 
to the Dems is donations from institutions of higher learning.

-- 
2004 - The year $184M couldn't buy a pennant.

Ron Artest: Extremely flawed, very accidental, semi-martyr


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