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To: Bridge Player who wrote (84404)11/6/2004 1:54:09 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793818
 
Perhaps you would try again and explain?


You originally said: "Why do people who live in large cities vote overwhemingly democratic..."

That map shows the jurisdiction where each candidate won and the cities are obvously almost all blue. What the map doesn't show is by how much Kerry won in the blue jurisdictions. It could have been by one vote in each of them. Therefore, you cannot ascertain from reading that map whether "people who live in large cities vote overwhelmingly democratic." All you can tell is that the Democrat won in the overwhelming number of cities. In my jurisdiction, which I recently discovered was categorized as "urban" rather than suburban, Kerry got about three quarters of the vote, which I think we would both consider "overwhelming." But you can't distinguish my blue dot from a blue dot where he only won by one vote.

And also, what is it about being "cosmopolitan" that would make one prefer a democratic administration to a republican one?

I don't know that a cosmopolitan person would necessarily prefer any Democrat to any Republican. I was speaking to this election, although I recognize belatedly that your question was not specific to this election. In that regard, you got a better answer from Kyros.
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