NY-Senate/Quinnipiac: Gillibrand (D) loses Primary, but beats King (R) in the GE

[Verily]

Queens has huge Asian communities, many of which are Buddhist, but Buddhism isn't really a religion so maybe that's why.  There are also big Eastern European communities.  Hipsters too but not more than Brooklyn. 

Oh wait no.. Non-Affiliated probably stands for Christians that are neither Catholic nor Protestant and Queens has huge Greek and Russian communities (Orthodox Christians). 

That would be incredibly dumb if it's the case. Orthodox would go under "Other" (or would get their own category or go in "Other Christian" or something). They're definitely not "unaffiliated".

Of course, it might just be some stupid Wikipedia editor who combined "Other Christian" and "Unaffiliated". The data needs a source in any case...

[minionofmidas]

Let's compare the ARDA figures... also from 2000...
Compared to their headline figures, I've conflated Mainline Protestant and Evangelical Protestant; subtracted Jewish (est.) from the other pile, added Orthodox to it. Note that unclaimed includes not only Buddhists etc (there's a count of temples but, for obvious reason, not of adherents) but also most Black Protestant churches. Muslims (est.) are the largest group among the remaining others, o/c. Though the Manhattan/Queens spike over Brooklyn is largely due to Orthodox concentrationlets.

Brooklyn 37.0% Catholic, 15.4% Jewish, 7.6% Protestant, 2.9% other, 37.0% unclaimed
Queens 28.9% Catholic, 10.7% Jewish, 4.6% Protestant, 4.0% other, 51.9% unclaimed
Manhattan 36.7% Catholic, 20.5% Jewish, 8.6% Protestant, 4.2% other, 30.0% unclaimed
Bronx 43.7% Catholic, 6.3% Jewish, 5.0% Protestant, 1.3% other, 43.7% unclaimed
Staten 59.7% Catholic, 7.6% Jewish, 5.3% Protestant, 2.4% other, 25.0% unclaimed

sum 37.1% Catholic, 13.1% Jewish, 6.4% Protestant, 3.2% other, 40.3% unclaimed

[Torie]

How in the world could King be elected to anything? 

[Smash255]

How in the world could King be elected to anything? 

I have been asking myself the same question about this pile of crap that represents me in Congress..

Pretend he is much more moderate than he is, and get a district drawn to pick up every Republican possible.

[Lunar]

How in the world could King be elected to anything? 

He was only a legitimate candidate when he saw that Caroline Kennedy was collapsing and wanted to position himself as an early frontrunner against her.  I'm not sure why he would be doing that, since if he wanted CK as his opponent, or possibly some other less-electable candidate such as Weingarten or Velázquez  or whatever, he shouldn't attempt to make them look vulnerable until after they were picked.

The media hasn't given up on him running in '10 against Gillibrand [or whoever beats Gillibrand, increasingly looking like Israel at this point, should someone emerge], but it's ridiculous to guess that he would.  King has pretty much said he only emerged as an anti-CK candidate and really hasn't moved forward anymore.  He has no reason to firmly declare he won't run for the Senate, because who knows, maybe a less electable candidate like José Serrano will try and primary Gillibrand later on?

He's one of three remaining congressmen in the NY GOP delegation, he's doing SOMETHING ok, haha.  And he's vaguely worried about being gerrymandered out of his seat for the '12 races, meaning that he'd be slightly more than likely at running even if he wasn't completely confident at his chances.

[Smash255]

How in the world could King be elected to anything? 

He was only a legitimate candidate when he saw that Caroline Kennedy was collapsing and wanted to position himself as an early frontrunner against her.  I'm not sure why he would be doing that, since if he wanted CK as his opponent, or possibly some other less-electable candidate such as Weingarten or Velázquez  or whatever, he shouldn't attempt to make them look vulnerable until after they were picked.

The media hasn't given up on him running in '10 against Gillibrand [or whoever beats Gillibrand, increasingly looking like Israel at this point, should someone emerge], but it's ridiculous to guess that he would.  King has pretty much said he only emerged as an anti-CK candidate and really hasn't moved forward anymore.  He has no reason to firmly declare he won't run for the Senate, because who knows, maybe a less electable candidate like José Serrano will try and primary Gillibrand later on?

He's one of three remaining congressmen in the NY GOP delegation, he's doing SOMETHING ok, haha.  And he's vaguely worried about being gerrymandered out of his seat for the '12 races, meaning that he'd be slightly more than likely at running even if he wasn't completely confident at his chances.

Plainview, Jericho, Woodbury time to come back home to the 3rd and kick King to the curb