Lyndhurst, NJ GOP switching to Democrats

[minionofmidas]

So in other words, you consider half of Rutherford to not "really" be Rutherford. Nice.

Reminds me of the bunch of Nazis who run Nieder-Eschbach parish council.

Explanation of the above statement (nazi was just a fanciful insult):
The Bügel estate between Bonames and Nieder-Eschbach proper has
43% of Nieder-Eschbach's inhabitants
36% of its registered voters
27-31% of votes cast at recent elections
22-27% of CDU votes
1 of 10 government (CDU+FDP) members on the parish council
2 of 9 opposition  members on the parish council.
There's a big "Welcome to Nieder-Eschbach" sign between the estate and Nieder-Eschbach proper.
And if the estate wasn't there (as it wasn't until 30 years ago), the council would not be entitled to 19 members but just to 13.

[minionofmidas]

So East Rutherford is slightly less well off, but it's not exactly something you'd fear turning into. Why it's more Republican is interesting though.

Whites feeling more threatened, ie the Yonkers Effect?

[minionofmidas]

Thinking about it is kind of find of funny that Lyndhurst goes from being super majority Republican to super majority Democrat a few days before there uber-Democrat neighbors vote in a total of 5 Republicans and 0 Democrats, and all the Rutherford ones by 70%

In your part of the country, local politics labels are not perfectly aligned with national ones. It happens. (shrugs)