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The Republican Party's Diminishing Strength in New York
Gotham Gazette (dot com) ^ | June 7, 2004 | Gerald Benjamin

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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2006; 2008; 2010; 2012; bush; camejo; cheney; clinton; demographics; demography; demographyisdestiny; dubya; edwards; election; gwb; hillary; hitlery; kerry; nader; napalminthemorning
Posted part of this quote in another topic, and thought it would make a nice separate topic. Gee, I hope it's not been posted before, but if it has, just post the URL, no diatribes needed. It's easy to see why Hillary ran for Senate in NY state, and how that plays to her plans for the Presidency.
1 posted on 09/09/2004 11:19:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

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


2 posted on 09/09/2004 11:36:14 AM PDT by orangelobster
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To: orangelobster

T'anks.


3 posted on 09/09/2004 11:39:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: SunkenCiv
The GOP is diminishing in all the high immigration states.

But its better not to talk about it.

4 posted on 09/09/2004 11:41:35 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SunkenCiv
national Republicans have learned to win without New York

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...

5 posted on 09/09/2004 11:43:31 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: orangelobster

The Republican Party's Diminishing Strength in New York

That headline explains this headline:

New York Leads U.S. in Taxes, Tennessee Is Last


6 posted on 09/09/2004 12:34:10 PM PDT by planekT
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To: 2banana
Your statement is correct with respect to Florida, where older, and often Jewish, New Yorkers and other Northeasterners have migrated in retirement. North Carolina's Research Triangle area seems to attract liberal types from the Northeast. Vermont, though not Southern, has shifted to the left due to the influx of ex-hippies and alternative lifestyle people, many of whom, like Ben and Jerry and Bernie Sanders, are former New Yorkers.

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.

7 posted on 09/09/2004 12:50:51 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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