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If you look at the county by county red blue nap you will see that the urban centers of NY - Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, and of course the whole NYC region except for Staten Island - went donkey—no surprise there. Urban areas represent: minorities, government workers, cacademics, immigrants, union labor, (throw in garbage heap the guilt ridden liberal limousiners)-—people generally on some kind of government dole who know that the donkeys will do their best to maintain the status quo.
The only “change” that Barry promised is a return to the big brother big tax policies of the past-—really big-—much bigger than even Bush could imagine. That is what these proletariat constituencies wanted.