It was, in the end, an impressive showing for Barack Obama in the land of the bridge (please don't ask what bridge).
Hillary Clinton won 49 point something percent of the vote - the largest city-wide turnout in memory - and Obama got 48 percent. This in the home turf of New York Senator Clinton.
The heavy voting for Obama was expected in heavily African American Central Brooklyn (he won majorities in the Congressional Districts of Ed Towns and Yvette Clarke, both of whom were backing Clinton); but another key factor was the strong get-out-the-message, get-out-the-vote effort in largely white, progressive neighborhoods like Park Slope.
"The Obama-ites out organized the Hillary-ites on the ground in Brooklyn," New York City Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said.
Speaking to the Daily News, Sheinkopf called the ethnic/organizing combination "the double dynamic that makes Brooklyn different.
[Please note that Brooklyn for Barack - image seen on this post - was founded by an artist who culturally and otherwise says he identifies with Obama, as many educated young Americans of all races and ethnic groups apparently do. See earlier BrooklynRon post.]
[Sheinkopf's quotes were in a Daily News article about Clinton's narrow win in New York City.]
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