Incidently, as a NYer, I have no problem with the numerous Orthodox Jewish towns in Rockland County. I say this without getting into the fact that they voted 99% for Hillary Clinton after her husband pardoned their leaders who were being indicted for scamming federal education funds.
"Incidently, as a NYer, I have no problem with the numerous Orthodox Jewish towns in Rockland County. I say this without getting into the fact that they voted 99% for Hillary Clinton after her husband pardoned their leaders who were being indicted for scamming federal education funds."
That was just that one town in that one election, after the Clintons bought their support by pardoning some members of the community that had established a phony yeshiva to steal public funding. The Orthodox voters in Rockland are overwhelmingly Republican, and they came out in full force for President Bush in 2004, which was one of the main reasons why President Bush's vote percentage in Rockland County increased from 39.52% in 2000 to 49.63% in 2004.
I would be willing to wager that the Orthodox town in Rockland County that voted heavily for Gore and Hillary in 2000 was located in Ramapo Township, in which Bush improved his performance from 33.08% in 2000 to 50.31% in 2004. In fact, I looked for the precincts in Ramapo that voted the most heavily for Gore, and precincts 55 and 58 held Bush to just 1.87% and 1.68%, respectively, in 2000. In 2004, Bush got a whopping 98.74% in precinct 55 and 99.12% in precinct 58. I don't believe I need to do any further digging to come to the conclusion that (i) those two precincts were the ones that covered the Orthodox town in which the Clintons bought nearly unanimous support in 2000 in return for presidential pardons, and (ii) no other precinct in America saw President Bush increase his vote percentage by 97% from 2000 to 2004.