[kabar]

With almost 80% of the voters being urban dwellers, you would be hard pressed to explain why most of the country doesn't vote Democrat and how any Rep candidate like an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan or Bush 41 could achieve such smashing election victories. In any event, I find it too simplistic to explain why Jews are the Dems second most loyal constituency after blacks.

[Sam Cree]

That urban dwellers vote left and vote Democrat in higher proportions than do rural dwellers is beyond question, I believe. The red/blue maps show pretty conclusively that all the large urban areas in the US went Dem in the last 2 presidential elections.

Luckily, we (still) have the Electoral College, which gives greater weight to rural areas than actual population would seem to dictate. Our founding fathers found a way to prevent one area of the country, the urban in this case, from running roughshod over everyone else's interests. So we can still elect a conservative president, luckily.

[Sam Cree]

"In any event, I find it too simplistic to explain why Jews are the Dems second most loyal constituency after blacks."

Agreed, there is more to it than that. But I do think the urban tendency to be left of rural dwellers in voting at least contributes.