New York Precinct Results Questions

[Stranger Than Fiction]

Hi everyone,

Could someone provide some context on the lone precinct in Manhattan that went for McCain by 3 votes?  I've looked at the map from the NYC BOE and it is a sliver from around the Penn Station/Herald Square area.  Is this an oddball result from a precinct with a non residential zoning that somehow had voters registered into?

Also - Obama won the Bronx with 88% but lost by lopsided margins in more than a handful of precincts around the Throgs Neck and Morris Park areas.  Have these areas around Throgs Neck and Morris Park always been Republican bastions due to their Italian, Catholic demographics or did it had more to do with the 9/11 effect (a la Staten Island, Monmouth Co NJ, Ocean Co NJ)?

Thanks for any insights.

[Stranger Than Fiction]

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For anyone has access to the precinct-level data and shapefiles it would be interesting to compare Schumer's blowout in 2004 and Spitzer's landslide in 2006 with Obama's NYC performance in 2008.  I think Schumer has set the benchmark for Democratic performance in these areas.