Friday, November 26, 2010

The Great Sweep of 2010 - Michael Barone - National Review Online

GENTRY LIBERALS: The tsunami swept from the George Washington Bridge to the Donner Pass, but didn’t wash away affluent liberals to the east and west of these geographic markers. Also surviving were the cannibals — the public-employee unions that are threatening to bankrupt states such as California and New York, a prospect that doesn’t faze the left-leaning gentry.
In these areas, Republicans picked up one House seat anchored in Staten Island, two in New Hampshire, and one in Washington State, and they came close in two California districts wholly or partly in the Central Valley. Gentry-liberal territory stayed staunchly Democratic.

The Great Sweep of 2010 - Michael Barone - National Review Online

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