Where Manhattanites voted for Romney
Mr. Romney won a single Manhattan precinct outright, a stretch of Park Avenue near the Waldorf-Astoria, where six voters showed up and four chose the Republican. But he suffered a resounding defeat in New York, a rare outbreak of consensus in a city famous for fevered disagreement: in 91 of the city’s 5,286 precincts, Mr. Obama received 100 percent of the vote.
Still, even this most Democratic of cities has its outliers and intrigues. A precinct-by-precinct examination of the ways New Yorkers voted this month revealed some anomalous, and often telling, outcroppings, including pockets of red-state America tucked inside fields of blue.
Take a four-square-block slice of Gravesend, Brooklyn, a warren of high-priced residences dotted with Sephardic temples and yeshivas that happens to be the deepest single bloc of Republican support in all five boroughs. On Election Day, 97 percent of the voters there supported Mr. Romney, who beat Mr. Obama 133 votes to 3. Mr. Romney won unanimously in six other precincts, but altogether, 10 people voted in those precincts.
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Six precincts for a total of 10 people?
BallisticBob on November 25, 2012 at 10:59 AM
New York is where I’d rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a penthouse view
Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 25, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Must be AP and his cats.
tommy71 on November 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Six voters? For real?
moonsbreath on November 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Perhaps, but I’d hardly call this consensus surprising. Twenty years ago, I lived on the Upper West Side and when I went to vote, the poll workers never had a problem finding my name in the book because all they had to do was look for the lone name with an “R” beside it. There were probably a total of four registered Republicans in my precinct. Most were Dems, but we also had a pretty good number of registered Socialists and Green Party folks. Even at that time, Republicans were outnumbered in New York by like 4 or 5 to 1. I can’t imagine it’s improved any since then, so I’m not sure why the Times finds this so intriguing. Seems like business as usual to me.
NoLeftTurn on November 25, 2012 at 11:56 AM
The NYT is totally bummed that the entire city didn’t go unanimous for Obama.
Glenn Jericho on November 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM
I think it’s odd that such a huge city is practically devoid of ideological diversity. By definition, New Yorkers really do live in a bubble (apologies to Allah). Out here in flyover country we are much more diverse. Most of us live near to and work with people who have different political views.
juliesa on November 25, 2012 at 12:29 PM
I’m sure there was no voter fraud going on there at all.
UltimateBob on November 25, 2012 at 12:31 PM
A hurricane had come and destroyed a lot of people’s homes. Some precincts were hit very hard, so I can imagine few, if any voters showing up. Not to mention that a few of those areas, especially Brighton Beach/Coney Island in Brooklyn, are populated almost entirely by Russian/Ukranian immigrants.
ernesto on November 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM
But, we are told every day how diverse New York City is.
Moesart on November 25, 2012 at 1:17 PM
The demographics reflected here are due in large part to self-selection. White conservatives (the GOP base) often work in the city, but prefer to live in Long Island, northern New Jersey, upstate New York or Connecticut and commute to work. Romney nearly won Staten Island, with 49.1% of the vote. On Long Island, Romney got 46% of the vote in Nassau County and 48% in Suffolk County.
cam2 on November 25, 2012 at 1:45 PM