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Usually suburbs and richer areas are more conservative than the city counterparts. Is this true for Westchester? My friends says that people are all pro-Obama supporters.
LOL, not in my area they are not! I don't even know if most of the affluent areas are really majority democratic anymore. They may not say it, since it's still un-PC to say you are a republican, but even democrats I know are at the end of their ropes. I mean, really, how many more taxes can NYers handle?
But seriously, are you trying to start a war on here?
Usually suburbs and richer areas are more conservative than the city counterparts. Is this true for Westchester? My friends says that people are all pro-Obama supporters.
I have only been here a year but I find politics to be so much more complex than that here, and literally everything is politicized. There are factions within factions within factions here.
It really depends upon the town/village, but there are some areas in Westchester that are not majority Obama supporters. Westchester politics are definitely a mixed bag, and I find that people don't tend to blindly follow party lines.
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In my personal experience it is definitely majority Democratic, though there are certainly small areas that are not and the Republican minority can be large. In the last presidential election only two towns in Westchester voted majority Republican (Somers and somewhere in lower Westchester), and we will soon have town-by-town percentages for the next election so you'll be able to get a better idea. (And if Romney wins you can have my house for cheap since I've already picked out a nice place abroad.)
But note that local elections really are local. With very few exceptions, local elections never involve party politics on any level and people often cross over. I even voted for a Republican in the last town election.
(And if Romney wins you can have my house for cheap since I've already picked out a nice place abroad.)
Some homes in Kitsilano and Point Grey in BC offer astonishing views of the Pacific, with good schools and reasonable commutes to the city. Time to start looking given that if Romney doesn't win in 2012, Palin will in 2016.
Unless the voter base changes, whoever the GOP will nominate, even Christie, will likely lean to the far right despite all their pledges to move to the middle. It's not so much the personalities as it is the constituencies. In fairness, the same can be said about the Democrats and the left. Pelosi and her cabal will have to be satisfied. The atmosphere is becoming more and more polarized as elections go by.
The only time you'll see a change is at the local level when people get so disgusted with the corruption in city hall they throw the rascals out. But usually just to replace them with another Democrat.
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