Comments on On the Ground in Brooklyn

What happened to ECB? She has been quiet today..... I need a good pro-hillary rant.

Well, depression does that to you, @1.

Saw all the Obama flyers on Broadway on Sunday, looking good for this coming Saturday's caucus! I'll be at the Fremont Library location ...

can you guys maybe make a spin-off blog all about Obama?

@3 I keep hoping they'll spin off an Arts blog. Until then, I just skip the posts I don't want to read.

I think they should spin lineout back into slog

Fuck Brooklyn, right in the neck!!

Two rs in Carroll -- Carroll Gardens, not Caroll.

Aw, poor josh.

It's a Blue Tidal Wave of change.

Can't stop it.

America has had enough of last century's ideas - and the prior century's ideas in the GOP as well.

Time to wake up and live in the 21st Century.

I have heard of this New York. Where is it again?

This was my impression too, cus I was in Park Slope on Saturday also getting mugged by endless Obama canvassers. but Brooklyn is a HUGE place, so who knows; I wonder how they vote down in Bensonhurst or Boro Park.

So Hillary doesn't have to just win every state to have a successful Super Tuesday, she has to win every *neighborhood*, too? Damn this is a tough crowd.

i can only imagine the scene from "being john malkovich" where he is within his own mind and everyone is just saying "malkovich" for every word.

Obama! Obama obama obama, obama obama obama obama obama.

We were raised on the mean streets, Big Sven ... (well, actually, I grew up on tree farms and small towns ...)

people in NYC read SLOG?!?!?!

what, they don't have their own blogs to read?

First of all Michael this is the coolest blog out there, 2nd my sense being in Brooklyn is that everyone I know supports Obama...

There are tons of Obama signs around Fort Greene, Bed Stuy and Bushwick, many of them homemade. I think it's safe to say Brooklyn will go to Obama but I'm guessing the rest of the city will go Hillary (save maybe the BX).

What, no Ron Paul signs?

I guess Brooklyn is more grown-up than Seattle.

Carroll Gardens is definitely Obama territory...Smith Street is filled with Obama signs and banners..same for BK Heights, Cobble Hill, Park Slope. That said - Brooklyn is ginormous...it might be hard to get a read on the other 3.5 million people or so in that borough...but I think NYC will go Obama by a comfortable margin...

C'mon. 3.5 million people? That's all of Puget Sound or maybe half the whole State of Washington.

Why, when they built the subway Brooklyn was all farms.

morningside heights / upper west side / west harlem is strong for obama but with pockets of hillary support.

after a week of phone banking i participated in visability & canvasing from 125th-103rd with a bunch of people. didn't see a single hillary group, though apparently they were in force as visability only at Columbus Circle and on 5th Ave & 59th. i also heard they were doing massive canvasing in Washington Heights.

i would say hillary has a lock on the old crusty angry at the world folks. they hate young people and their rock 'n roll music and are angry when you smile.

i also got a few soccer mom's that apologized and said they were going to vote for Hillary (seemed odd to apologize for your vote... you CAN change you mind, you know) and a few pissed off elderly gentlemen who said that the world wasn't ready for a black president.

the oddest part was at two different Latino women came up to me about 30 minutes apart and told me Barack was a Muslim and pledged to put 90,000 more troops in Iraq. they used almost the same language and i asked where they heard it but they just walked away.

Also, Obama people are very loud and highly supportive (buttons, posters, etc) in the city, but i think there's a dreaded silent majority of people who are going to simply go with the comfortable and go with Hillary.

You could see it in the canvasing this weekend... the 40+ crowd who would smile, then sheepishly look away.

30% Obama will win the city, but he's definitely going to get close.

I've seen tons of obama folks all over Ft. Greene and the Morningside Heights/Harlem area, and it's getting my hopes up for an upset in NYC, but I think Grant might be right about the silent, comfortable older folks who will vote for Clinton. We will see... but I'm looking forward voting for Obama tomorrow.

Apparently the only votes that count are in New York City. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama can win the city by a narrow margin. The issue is whether he can win the state.

there is no way in hell that he will win the state. it ain't gonna happen.

he can win the city, but even that is probably too much.

overall, we've made the HRC camp spend money here that they didn't want to, he will pick up a lot of delegates, and HRC is not even in the same ball park in IL her "home" state.