San Francisco Democrats go nuts again

[bgwah]

I read most of the article and I don't see what this has to do with Democrats...

[bgwah]

I don't quite "get" San Francisco.

It votes so similarly to a place like Seattle, yet you rarely see this kind of inane idiocy out of Seattle.

San Francisco is a nice town, as long as you don't discuss politics with about a third of its inhabitants...

Even with Dean Logan 'running' the elections in King county, its no where as far to the left as San Francisco.

County                     Kerry           Bush          Others

San Francisco           83.0%         15.2%        1.8%

King                          65.0            33.7            1.4

Ok ok.

But I suppose we could look at it like this.

When they voted for mayor, 48% of the city voted Green and 52% voted Democrat. But the Democrat obviously got support from that 15.2% who voted for Bush, so realllly the city is 48% green-minded, 37% democrat, and 15% Republican.

Now, we can all agree that the Greens are crazy.

[bgwah]

I don't quite "get" San Francisco.

It votes so similarly to a place like Seattle, yet you rarely see this kind of inane idiocy out of Seattle.

San Francisco is a nice town, as long as you don't discuss politics with about a third of its inhabitants...

Seattle is a much smarter city than San Francisco. The insane-liberal faction doesn't even make up 1/5 of Seattle.

[bgwah]

I wouldn't say that. Many of the Republicans could've simply voted Green to oppose the Democrats. I doubt 10% of Seattle would indentify themselves as a Green rather than a Democrat, much less almost half of the city.

Haha, I don't think so!!! Honestly, people went into this KNOWING the Green (Gonzales, wasn't it?) had a decent chance at winning.

Jake, ask yourself... If you had to vote either Green or Democrat, and the polls showed that the race was close, would you REALLY vote Green?

About Seattle...I do remember one time about 18% of the city voted Green in a congressional election... That is why I said less than 1/5 of the city is crazy...Because apparently 18% of the people didn't think Jim McDermott was liberal enough for them.

But Seattle has a sane and competent mayor. One who is pro-growth and pro-business. Our city council seems capable as well. As Democratic as the Seattle area may be, anyone can tell you that raising taxes here is very difficult.

[bgwah]

These people can go back to the Green Party. As the 2004 election has shown, they didn't help and if anything drove more people away from the Democratic Party.