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So you might think New Yorkers would be ready, at the drop of a NoLita-chic hat, to spew their very own special set of concerns, their wish lists, wants, needs, rants and whines.
You would be wrong. When it comes to electing a president, it turns out that in the city of Central Park, Wall Street and Broadway, voters are not so different in what they want from a Democratic candidate than voters in Berlin, N.H., or Edmond, Okla.
Puts into perspective Iowa, NH and how the primaries are going. Have I mentioned Junior's not very popular?
So, when it comes down to it, WE (dKos) are America. Who knew?
"I'm looking for anybody but Bush," said Alan Kellner, sounding a note that has reverberated among primary voters across the country.
"I'm looking for someone who is more compassionate to the poor and middle class," added Mr. Kellner, who helps process health insurance information in a Brooklyn dental office, "and a better take on how to handle the economy."
There is also Melvin Johnson, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority customer service representative at Grand Central Terminal who, as a black man from Harlem now living in the Bronx, would seem to have little in common with the average Democrat in a quasi-rural, overwhelmingly white state in northern New England. But ask him what his concerns are going into the primary election on Tuesday, and his answers are not far from those given by New Hampshire residents trying to assess the candidates last month.
"Economy, jobs, sending jobs overseas. That's another joke, O.K., because you're propping up somebody else's economy and ours is going into the toilet," Mr. Johnson said between bouts of clarifying track information for rail travelers.
"And this war thing. Oh, we could be here all day," he said, noting that flat feet had saved him from a tour in Vietnam. "They went into Iraq. I think you should get bin Laden before you go into Iraq."