I was surprised to see that Staten Island, one of the NYC five boroughs voted 57% for Bush and only 41% for Kerry.
I live on Staten Island -- it's the borough where most of the city's firefighters and cops live. I think 9/11 had a big influence on the vote here. And the 57% vote is the most SI has ever given a presidential candidate. Pretty impressive, especially considering the borough went narrowly for Clinton in 1996, and Gore in 2000.
One other thing -- living here proves my theory that those ribbon bumper stickers about supporting the troops and such are really stealth Bush bumper stickers. I didn't see a single Bush bumper sticker, but I see tons of those ribbon stickers every day.