Posted on 09/09/2004 11:19:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
At the turn of the 20th century, both United States senators from New York were Republicans; at the turn of the 21st century, both were Democrats. In 1904, 20 of 37 New York members of the House of Representatives were Republican; in 2004, 19 of 29 New York Congress members were Democrats. Of the 13 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the city, only one - Vito Fossella of Staten Island is a Republican... At the same time, the painful truth is that slow-growing New York has become increasingly less important in national electoral politics. When Dwight Eisenhower was nominated in 1952, the state had 45 electoral votes; this year it will cast just 31. Republican presidential aspirants may need the campaign money they raise here, but they have shown that they can win the presidency without New York's electoral votes. And the kind of appeals that could win a national Republican candidate the votes of a majority of skeptical New Yorkers might very well lose them GOP votes elsewhere in the country... national Republicans have learned to win without New York. If they forgot that lesson - and focused on winning the state - the positions might well cost them the votes of the increasingly conservative party faithful elsewhere in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamgazette.com ...
Gifford Miller, the city council head in nyc has a new campaign finance scheme to install a Democratic mayor in the next election. See this thread for info.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208318/posts
T'anks.
But its better not to talk about it.
The problem is that New Yorkers keep moving to other states and then try to make them into the liberal hell holes that they just escaped...
The Republican Party's Diminishing Strength in New York
That headline explains this headline:
New York Leads U.S. in Taxes, Tennessee Is Last
However, I don't believe it is correct with respect to other Southern states or Colorado. Places like Cobb County, GA (near Atlanta), Fort Bend County, TX (near Houston), Collin County, TX (near Dallas), Davidson County, TN (Nashville and suburbs), and El Paso County, CO (Colorado Springs and vicinity) are predominantly white, middle class areas with many Midwestern and Northeastern transplants. These transplants may still have a taste for Italian beef or pastrami and may not appreciate good barbecue, but they are politically and culturally conservative. Consider that some of the famous politicians from these areas, like Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Dick Armey, were transplants from the North, yet were or are staunch conservatives.
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