2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBerniemania sweeps Brooklyn...
In Brooklyn at a special online party, there are Bernie Is Bae placards, andin a sea of Converse sneakers, crop tops, and tattoospassionate support for Bernie Sanders.
Early Wednesday evening at a sweaty loft party in Bushwick, hipster clichés sipped all-natural, hibiscus- and mint-flavored soda and admired their hosts artwork: small swaths of canvas stenciled with slogans for Bernie Sanderss grassroots 2016 presidential campaign, from the traditional (Go Bernie!), to the alliterative and playful (Bernie or Bust and Feel the Bern), to the millennial (Bernie is Bae).
The latter was particularly popular among 70 or so young anti-establishment liberals who filed into the Bushwick loft Wednesday night, where Steve Panovich, 36, was hosting one of 3,300 online house parties across the country organized by Sanderss Democratic campaign.
Panovich apologized to guests for the venues sauna-like temperatures, but no one seemed to mind much: For refreshments there were Tostitos, nuts, and warm beer.
Feel the Bern! Literally! one ebullient Bernie fanboy shouted from the crowd of hipsters-in-uniform: Converse sneakers, crop tops, tattoos, purple hair, and ironic T-shirts.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/30/berniemania-sweeps-bushwick-deep-in-sanders-hipster-heartland.html
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)Trust me. I was in Bay Ridge today, it's a very conservative area. It's Jeb! and Christie country. Bernie shouldn't give up though. Fight for Bay Ridge, even if it means losing the area by a few votes.
Turchinsky
(61 posts)pretty conservative also....
But Bernie might connect......
Sanity Claws
(21,848 posts)Shared with Staten Island.
The only republican of all NYC congress people. Probably would not matter who the Democratic nominee was.
As for Bensonhurst, I don't get the same feel. It is full of first generation Chinese immigrants, many of whom are not yet citizens. The old time Italian population do not dominate Bensonhurst as they do Bay Ridge.
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)I went there today, and saw Jeb signs by the subway station. I was shocked. Bay Ridge can be won by Hillary Clinton. She won there in '00 and '06.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)Just putting it out there. Brooklyn sits at approx 2.6 million and LA around 3.8 million.
Wait, I responded to the wrong person. Sorry! Cheers!