Posted on 08/07/2007 6:09:55 AM PDT by oblomov
GREENWICH, Conn. -- You know you're in a different kind of town when the signs against drunk driving show a line drawn through a Martini glass to which the artist thoughtfully added a stirrer. Greenwich, Conn., is one such town.
Greenwich is home to billionaire hedge-fund managers, private-equity kings and corporate chieftains, as well as ordinary multi-multimillionaires. Interviewing people here requires leaving phone messages with au pairs and catching folks between board meetings.
You'd think that Greenwich would be solid Bush-loving turf -- what with all those tax cuts for the rich. It is not. The voters are roughly 40 percent Republican, 40 percent unaffiliated and only 20 percent Democratic, but Bush won the town by only a sliver in 2004, even though his father grew up here.
The political shift toward Democrats has been noted in wealthy suburbs from Seattle to Philadelphia. In 2006, an amazing 63 percent of voters making from $150,000 to $200,000 chose Democratic candidates. Even those making over $200,000 favored Democrats, albeit by a small margin.
Greenwich has also become an incubator for liberal candidates. Local businessman Ned Lamont became the bloggers' hero last year for nearly unseating Iraq-war cheerleader Joe Lieberman in a Senate race.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I think this just helps prove the theory that one doesn’t have to be a deep thinker to make a good living.
What I find funny is blacks. Blacks who grow up in the ghetto and work their a$$es off to become wealthy STILL VOTE DEMOCRAT.
Many successful Blacks credit LBJ’s Great Society Program for their success. The 2nd phase of the Civil Rights Movement is about economic justice. MLK spoke about ending poverty. Thus, when Republicans talk about cutting Govt spending and less Govt, many Blacks (esp the older Generation) feel that the GOP is trying to end economic enpowerment for them.
Funny, I thought sensible moderates ,like Jodi Rell, were going to turn affluent suburbs into being solid Red territory.
Hmmmm seems I have to plan my next trip there.
>The 2nd phase of the Civil Rights Movement is about economic justice.
So said the leaders of the Comintern when they occupied and took over the civil rights movement.
“Affluent Suburbs out west are still firmly Republican.”
Were that it so. But it isn’t, at least in Oregon. The two affluent Portland suburban counties — Washington and Clackamas — voted to re-elect an astoundingly unpopular democratic Governor in 2006 by a 6.6 percent margin (Clackamas) and a 19 percent margin (Washington). Incumbent democartic Congressman David Wu (he of the Klingon flub up and consistently anti-Administration votes) won re-election in the prosperous 1st District with just under 82 percent of the vote.
Not encouraging, and I don’t think it’s gotten any better since then.
That statement is not class warfare, not class warfare at all. The reason we have problems in this country in the first place is because of this desire among people to bash the rich. Call it populism, and clearly, as per the statement I am responding to, this horrid influence pervades both parties.
heil hillary!
The points you make are valid. Rush has said the country clubber type Republicans by in large don’t want to be associated with “the Religious Right”, “the Pro Life” and the “Pro Gun Rights” elements of the Republican Party. They will look down their noses at them, in large part because they fear disdain and ridicule by the intelligensia of society and the PC crowd if it comes to light that they are associated with them. Yes, could be an element of fear and misunderstanding towards them, as you say, but Rush thought it was more wanting to be on the side of what is popular in the media and among the more elite among us, so as not to be identified with the “neanderthals” that comprise that disdained group. Pity.
Because they are already rich, and the tax burden and regulation hurts their smaller, up-and-coming competition more than it hurts them. They've got lobbyists and congressmen to write loopholes into the code for themselves.
The North East is Libeal. Film at eleven.
Yeah, but the Kossacks want those loophole closed. And since they rule the Democratic party, the writing is on the wall.
hopefully that is only true on the east and left coasts. I’m in Denver, and while the city and Boulder (a northern suburb, university town) are firmly moonbat, the surrounding suburbs are VERY republican. Tancredo is my representative and wins overwhelmingly.
Exactly as LBJ predicted except he used the N-word.
I think some people who are intellectually insecure are very susceptible to going along with what the MSM defines as “respectable” thought, which means pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, and anti-religious right. Also, many people’s views of the religious right are almost totally formed by their perceptions of televangelists, which are largely - and understandably - negative. (My apologies to the handful of televangelists who I think are straight shooters, even if I don’t necessarily agree with them, e.g., Charles Stanley, James Robison, and a few others.)
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