In the past two presidential elections, President Bush and John McCain each got 57% of the vote in the Brooklyn portion of Anthony Weiner’s NY-09 and, even more impressively, like 55% in the Brooklyn portion of Anthony Jerrold Nadler’s NY-08. Those Brooklyn’s precincts are dominated by Orthodox Jewish voters who have come to despise the Democrats’ social liberalism and by Russian Jews with no love for Communism. If New York redistricters would draw a single Jewish district in Brooklyn (instead of splitting such voters between a Manhattan CD and a Queens CD) there would be an Orthodox Jewish Republican in Congress elected partly on the strength of the anti-Communist Russian Jewish vote.
I'm surprised at the difference in the GOP vote among whites in Brooklyn. It's much higher than most big cities in the Northeast, and even much of the Midwest. I think the white vote in Queens and Long Island also may be close to 50/50. That's a lot higher than the Philly Suburbs (Chester and Bucks County less so), Manhattan, Montgomery County Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
That's just not going to happen, since 'Rats largely control the redistricting process (although the Pubbies have now regained control of the NY Senate by a slim margin.) Aside from the mostly Staten Island seat, there hasn't been a GOP congressman elected from NYC in decades. And you can bet the 'Rats in Albany are teed off about that one seat that the GOP regained in November.