"Icebound" wrote in message
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On the security front, I found it interesting that the people most likely
to be affected by terrorism (the big cities)... especially New York
City, and in spite of Guiliani's. popularity... still voted
overwhelmingly AGAINST the incumbent???? (like 70%plus ... 80% in the
case of The Bronx)

That's because, as cities most likely to be affected by terrorism (and in
the case of NYC, to *have* been most affected by terrorism), the populace
actually understands the real risk versus benefit issues, and see how they
are a) not really much safer than they were before, b) not really in all
that much danger in the first place, and c) subject to additional
restrictions and scrutiny that are unwarranted.

The "selling fear to the voters" works best on people far enough removed
from the situation to not be able to sift fact from fiction.

Another factor is the move of the Republican party from being true
conservatives (which they used to be) to being basically front man for the
evangelical or fundamentilist Christians. Again, this demographic group is
not well-suited to high-density urban areas where there's a great amount of
diversity and open-mindedness.

Pete