Posted on 10/23/2004 8:46:49 PM PDT by nj26
I can vouch for this, at least anecdotally. My fiance is from Toledo. Her entire family still lives there. They come from a long line of union member blue collar Dems.
Her brother, for example, is the prototypical union Dem: works at the Calphalon plant, loves NASCAR, hunting, beer, playing video games with his kids, and hanging out with his family. Her brother and the men (long line of pipe-fitters) are all voting Repub for the first time in their lives.(Most of the women of her family are still, unfortunately, Dems or undecided.)
My fiance was floored when her bro said he was voting Bush. He told her that he's not voting for Bush due specific issues so much as the fact that Bush "has guts, tells it like it is, and you know where he's coming from."
I get the sense that although Columbus proper leans Dem as any large city does, it isn't by the huge margins that Cleveland or Akron does.
All of Columbus' suburbs are heavily Republican where many Cleveland suburbs vote Democrat.
The Plain Dealer kinda surprised me. Although I think they endorsed W in 2000 as well.
The Akron Beacon Journal will endorse Kerry, if they haven't already. I stopped subscribing to that socialist rag years ago.
Columbus feels more "sun belt" than "rust belt." It's one of the cleanest, fastest-growing cities in the Midwest.
Economists sometimes refer to Columbus as the only "Sun Belt" city in the North - that is, it never was an industrial city, but instead has appeared in the last twenty years with a service-based economy, like Phoenix/St. Petersburg/Austin/Orlando/etc. That's what makes it unique, compared to all its neighbors such as Cleveland, Detroit, or Pittsburgh.
Yeah. The weather is definitely NOT sunbelt, but it does have that feel to it.
Just Damn!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)
The Columbus Dispatch is respected....
This will make a HUGE difference to the people who do not have access to the internet...
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable... now I can buy it again...
Good ol' Columbus - my beloved hometown. It rules! Wish I was back there.
I live in Columbus and I can tell you categorically that this city is split down the middle, no joke.
I believe Gore took Franklin County, the county in which Columbus is located.
Take that Charlie Brooker and The Guardian. You probably did more to help the President than you can even imagine.
Lot's of Bush support here but I am in a suburb that is not in Franklin county. Kerry supporters up to their usually dirty tricks. Recently one of them went around the main drag and plastered Kerry signs every hundred feet or so and this is solid Bush country in this burb(In my neighborhood of 64 homes--10 have Bush signs and 4 have Kerry signs(either on their car or in front of their home). Most have been removed and the ones that haven't, I have called the businesses and told them their continued keeping of the Kerry sign on their property or close to it is a defacto endorsement of Kerry and they won't get this Bush supporters business--seen a couple removed the next morning after this and some did not realize that the sign had been placed where it had.
Most of hubby's siblings are union(he has 6 of them) and every last one is voting Bush.
You would be correct.
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