Benj: Ran into a woman on the elevator – Irish Catholic, married w/ children from Queens – …but she kept me away from my desk for 10 minutes talking about how she (and her husband) had been put off by Palin’s tone/delivery…

New Yorkers don’t count. They are as ignorant a pack of self-important nincompoops as you will ever meet. I know, born and raised there. Palin’s accent alone will put off half of New York, because the self-righteous sneer is their mother’s milk. They think they know everything, yet if you scratch the surface they are stuffed full of Lefty talking points and don’t have a clue about how the world works (like Nancy Pelosi, I’m sure many New Yorkers don’t know natural gas is a fossil fuel).

They continually vote for people who are Socialist rot like Obama, until the point when things get so bad that the wolves are at the door (i.e. the Dinkins administration) and then they go begging for a Rethuglican to save them (Rudi), and he DOES save them and they thank him by calling him Adolph Giuliani.

Voters in the major urban centers are also way more influenced by the social aspects of voting: I’m voting for Obama because that’s what’s cool.