Who votes Republican in the big cities?

[Ardent15]

Seriously, even though Obama got over 80 percent of the vote in cities like Chicago, SF, NYC, and LA, that still leaves around 10-15 percent who voted Republican. That's still tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people.

I'm wondering, who votes Republican in a city surrounded by multicultural Democratic voters? Some of the wealthy, perhaps, but a lot of them vote Democratic nowadays. And many of them live in the suburbs.

[DJ13]

1. Probably the business, upper management types

[abluelady]

2. I Think Frightened People

And they live everywhere.

[mwb970]

3. I think it's the richies.

The rich people I know are solidly right-wing, union-hating False News viewers. It's "I've got mine, screw you!"

[beyurslf]

4. Some of those may be voting Green or other left parties---think SanFran for one.

[Alias Dictus Tyrant]

5. In a lot of places, it is the blue collar guys that vote Republican.

All of the urban fat cats and bankers are Democrats, stereotypes notwithstanding. I know Wall Street billionaires and their ilk; they give silly money to the Democrats, which is probably why they get a free ride from Obama.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. There are fundamentalist/evangelical denominations among several ethnic

enclaves in the big cities. They might tend to vote repuke just for the abortion issues..and "freedom of religion" issues such as prayers in school..etc

[Ardent15]

8. Makes sense

Fundie Jews and Russian Orthodox are among the ones I know of. And some Hispanics and Asians are pretty conservative, too.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. system burp

[jody]

9. I thought LA was Obama about 55% to McCain 45%. Do you have a source for the 80% stat? n/t

[Ardent15]

10. This source say LA County went 70 percent for Obama

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html

I'd expect the city itself was won by Obama by a greater margin.

[jody]

16. Thanks. n/t

[KingFlorez]

11. Obama, 931,093 - McCain, 265,941

I'm not sure of the percentage, but that certainly doesn't average out 55% to 45%. McCain would have never gotten 45% in Los Angeles.

[Ardent15]

12. I believe it was nearly 80 percent, if my math was correct

But I could be wrong.

[dsc]

13. that comes to just under 78%

[KingFlorez]

15. Thanks

Didn't feel like doing the percentage math.

[Happy Hippy]

14. Republicans .....n/t

[Odin2005]

17. Rich people, fundies, Libertarian nuts, doctors, lawyers, bankers.