Erie County/Goldhaber Research Associates: Paladino (R) leads by 19

[Stranger Than Fiction]

While Erie County voted for Mondale, it did also vote for Pataki all 3 times. Anyways, Paladino can have fun winning his own county while he loses badly statewide.

As I wrote in a separate post, I would not be surprised to see Paladino winning 60% or more of the votes in Western New York, which includes Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua, Cattaragus, Wyoming and Genessee Counties while running up huge margins in the rest of NYS.  The Buffalo area (Erie/Niagara) in particular have been trending Republican since 2000, and there are a lot of disenchanted white working class, tea-party folks who are screaming "I'm mad as hell too, Carl". 

[Joe Republic]

It's so hilarious that grammar is a political issue with some. Everything is not a huge political drama.

Not huge, no, but they've certainly made it a political issue.  The Wiki article I linked to earlier in the thread is a really fascinating read on conservatives' attempts at subliminal weasel wording.

You can use whatever you want, but that doesn't make it grammatically correct.

Indeed, and they're welcome to make themselves look like they failed sixth grade English. 

[tpfkaw]

You vote Democrat.  You don't vote Democratic.  You are therefore a Democrat voter.

You honestly can't see how that is plainly incorrect?

(I often wonder how many people who use this phrase incorrectly are deliberately trolling, or have simply been misled by those who are.)

Compare these two sentences:

"I voted Democrat for governor and senate."

"I voted Democratic for governor and senate."

We would use the first phrasing, at least in the wealthy, uberliberal parts of Massachusetts I frequent.

EDIT:  How about this one:

"Democrat Deval Patrick for Governor" vs. "Democratic Deval Patrick for Governor"

[tpfkaw]

Part of the confusion here stems from the use of two different nouns.  The party is the Democratic Party.  Members of the Democratic Party are Democrats.

Democrat is used as an adjective when describing members of the Democratic Party:

"Democrat Deval Patrick" "Democrat voters" "I voted straight Democrat" "Democrat-controlled Senate"

Democratic is used when describing things pertaining to the Democratic Party:

"Democratic health care proposal" "Democratic house caucus" "Democratic voter registration" "the Democratic ticket"