New York loves Obama ... by a whopping 81%

Go figure !  Also, go figure why visitors to the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC voted Barack Hussein Obama as the 3rd most popular prez....after George Washington and Lincoln. Are Americans smoking something potent supplied  by the WH or are they onto something that we cannot see from over here?  I am at a loss to understand what's going on with our neighbours.  Besides liking the guy for being a family man and NOT a warmonger ... is there anything else to appreciate about him?   Unbelievable that 81% of NY's voters cast their ballots for Obama.  Maybe, just maybe.... Americans wanted to show the Republican party that its thinking is outdated and does not work for the present time and place.  I can't figure out   the kind of love affair going on between Americans at large and Obama.  Fascinating !!


Greg Giroux writing at Bloomberg:
...Obama’s 81% New York City Support is Best in 114 Years.   President Barack Obama won more support from New York City in November’s election than any White House candidate in more than 100 years, according to a final tally of votes.

Obama beat Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 81 percent to 18 percent in the nation’s largest city, according to a certified vote count released Dec. 31 by the state board of elections. Some New York ballots were counted late in part because of complications caused by Hurricane Sandy.

Obama’s share of the vote is the best showing by a presidential nominee in New York since its five boroughs were consolidated in 1898, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the state elections board and the 2005 books “America at the Polls” and “The Encyclopedia of New York State.”

The results underscore New York’s decades-long status as a Democratic bastion where most residents are racial and ethnic minorities. Of the city’s 8.2 million residents, 29 percent are Hispanic, 23 percent are non-Hispanic black and 13 percent are non-Hispanic Asian, according to 2011 estimates from the Census Bureau.

“Demographic shifts are permanently changing the political landscape,” said Bruce Berg, a political scientist at Fordham University in New York. Census data show New York “is a more minority city than it already was,” he said in a telephone interview.....