re: #177 sliv_the_eli

The far more likely explanation for the polling results, as several have suggested, is that Manhattan residents tend to self-identify (and vote) as liberals on a far greater scale than the largely blue-collar residents of the other boroughs in New York City. I suspect that if the polling results could be broken down to reflect how respondends within Manhattan identified their general political leanings (i.e., liberal, moderate, conservative) or if a statistical analysis could be done to account for the different proportions of respondents in each borough who identified as liberal/moderate/conservative, the results would show that liberal Manhattanites’ views and liberal Staten Islanders’ views were similar, as are the views of conservative Manhattanites and conservative Staten Islanders.

Or maybe they’re for it because they look forward to it:

Partly it’s that Manhattanites are more liberal than people in the outer boroughs.

And partly it’s that Manhattanites are the ones who’d actually be in a position to make use of a community center in lower Manhattan. We’re the ones who’d be going to the lecture series or film series, or swimming in their pool, or taking cooking classes or belly dance classes, or renting the event space that costs 1/10 as much as a banquet hall at the Hilton, or dumping our grandmas there during heat waves to enjoy the air conditioning, or putting our kids in playgroups too large for our homes when it’s too cold to take them to the park…