Many local races in NYC don’t even have a GOP candidate, and those that do have no one you’ve ever heard of. Hopefully he votes for the least radical Dem, because that’s about your only option in NYC. It is the ultimate one-party town.
However, I think a lot of people are getting a wake-up call now and you’re not going to see the monolithic, automatic Dem voting of the past, if there’s any choice offered. This is so particularly among “minorities.” Most of the people interviewed in this article were probably black or Hispanic, along with some of the many younger whites that live in Upper Manhattan. It’s a very mixed area, and even still has some of its old Irish, Jewish and Italian residents.
I lived and worked in NYC many years ago, and at least among the people I knew there was nary a conservative or even moderate voice to be heard. Guns? Horrified at the thought of them. Taxes? Tax “the rich” more. Government programs? Every one of my acquaintances had an idea for a new one or at least wanted to expand an existing one. Pay for getting more government? see tax the rich more. I tried to avoid political discussions because there was never any logic just belief in the Democrat party. One the the many reasons I headed back south. Another was the smug self impressed parochial attitude that nothing west of the Hudson River or North of Yonkers was significant (in the case of NJ they were probably right). Worst place I ever lived.
just what I said about New Yorkers.