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Hey can someone tell me how the areas in New York City vote? Is like the whole New York City super liberal like here in Seattle or what? Thanks! I really hope to come visit someday!
NYC is pretty liberal, or at least pretty heavily Democrat. But there are borough-neighborhood exceptions. For instance, Staten Island regularly votes GOP in presidential and other election years and is currently the primary (along with a slither of southern Brooklyn) home base of NYC's only GOP congressperson. Parts of southern Brooklyn also lean towards the GOP, as do parts of Queens and Manhattan. The Bronx may be the city's most lopsided Democrat (I refuse to write "Democratic") borough, though I could be wrong about that; at the very least, Brooklyn and Manhattan aren't too far behind.
I'm not a democrat (registered independent) but it's painful how the black population votes for her in droves. It's nothing more than modern day slavery. The massa is Hillary and the plantation is the DNC. To my fellow black NY'ers, you're free!!! Get off the slave plantation and use your minds to think independently. How does a racist, 70 year old midwestern pale white woman command and own the mind of
blacks the way she does?
Yea. I know. Just want to see what they have to say for themselves.
I grew up with a family of JFK democrats, and was raised from day one to love and follow democrats...until I got to college and started to think for my own. I soon realized I'm no slave to anyone or any party, and that I don't have to follow any politician like a herd of sheep. My vote will be earned, not taken for granted. I have no massa.
Who are all of these people voting for Hillary if all I ever see is how much people hate her (even Democrats)? I seriously don't get it either. Not that I would want Bernie to win either...
Because Bernie's supporters are more outspoken than Hillary's supporters. It's probably the reason why exit polls had showed it being a 5 point race instead of 15 (response bias).
And I wonder how many people who voted for Hillary are actually Hillary supporters. Or did they just for somebody other than Bernie? I fall into the latter category.
Yea. I know. Just want to see what they have to say for themselves.
I grew up with a family of JFK democrats, and was raised from day one to love and follow democrats...until I got to college and started to think for my own. I soon realized I'm no slave to anyone or any party, and that I don't have to follow any politician like a herd of sheep. My vote will be earned, not taken for granted. I have no massa.
This is 100% correct.
One of the dumbest thing any voter can do is hitch their wagon to a political party or politician. This is especially true in light of the fact that a politician's true purpose is to lie, cheat, and steal while enriching themselves and their cronies as they continue to screw the citizens and the country-city-state continue to decline.
Congrats on coming to this realization! I used to be similarly loyal to the (R) party but have realized for the past 5 or so years that they don't have any interest in my well being either.
I watched the livestream the NYT's was hosting on facebook. The politics editor was having a conference call with three of the staff in her office and the controller of the election. She said to the guy on the phone that they'd been getting reports from their readers that they couldn't vote in this election and they wanted to know their estimate of how many people this effected.
He said they were doing a count and would have official numbers for her later. She pressed him to give her a ballpark, "Are we talking tens, twenties, a hundred?" He said that the voter disenfranchisement was probably into the thousands.
At least 29K livestream viewers witnessed that conference call on voter disenfranchisement in NYC. Here's the recorded livestream on it. LINK
There was also one part where she went around to the different areas talking to each person about the piece they were working on. One of the guys was the graphics department and he was doing to colors and counts for each district. I think this might be the thing he was working on.
Just when I was contemplating returning to my "progressive" birthplace of New York City, Clinton wins NY (largely due to NYC). And here I thought NYC was my progressive bubble. Seems like New York is unfortunately overpopulated by people who give their votes to corporate political puppets. And NY is completely backwards - as an Independent, I can vote for whomever I want in Texas. But in NY, you have to affiliate yourself to a party months in advance. So a large block of Sanders' base could not even vote. Guess if I move back to NY, I'll live among more like-minded progressive folks upstate. Keep up the fight Bern!!!
People should (continue) to lobby now to have the rule changed for 2017 instead of waiting until Primary Day Eve to complain again. I don't like the rule, but this shouldn't have been a surprise to voters, as it's nothing new. It's the reason I affiliated with a party instead of remaining independent, even though I've voted for both Republicans and Democrats in general elections.
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Who are all of these people voting for Hillary if all I ever see is how much people hate her (even Democrats)? I seriously don't get it either. Not that I would want Bernie to win either...
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Because she panders hard to them and all other minority groups. And it's all fake. People are stupid
I am registered independent so I didn't vote yesterday. But I agree that neither Hillary nor Bernie are good candidates. On the other hand anyone who votes for Bernie hasn't done their homework about socialism and communism connection. Also Jewish voters need to realize that Bernie (although he is technically Jewish) is anti-Israel if that is important to them.
One of the dumbest thing any voter can do is hitch their wagon to a political party or politician. This is especially true in light of the fact that a politician's true purpose is to lie, cheat, and steal while enriching themselves and their cronies as they continue to screw the citizens and the country-city-state continue to decline.
Congrats on coming to this realization! I used to be similarly loyal to the (R) party but have realized for the past 5 or so years that they don't have any interest in my well being either.
Switching alone doesn't mean change is going to occur either. So what do you want people to do? It takes a huge effort to change anything at all, and most major changes occur through grassroots efforts that politicians respond to.
I'm not a democrat (registered independent) but it's painful how the black population votes for her in droves. It's nothing more than modern day slavery. The massa is Hillary and the plantation is the DNC. To my fellow black NY'ers, you're free!!! Get off the slave plantation and use your minds to think independently. How does a racist, 70 year old midwestern pale white woman command and own the mind of
blacks the way she does?
Who do you want them to vote for? Cruz?
I personally did vote for Bernie. But he lost New York and quite clearly the man is not going to get the nomination.
In NY Independent voters were a part of the problem. There is no independent running as of present, so independents were locked out of the primaries and that favored Hillary. Maybe if you had registered as Democrat last year you could have helped oppose her.
Personally I have no problem with Hillary and I'm okay if she becomes the President. Better her than Trump or any of the Republicans.
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