Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave.
In a political system designed to privilege rural areas over urban ones,a businessman from Manhattan, a socialist from Brooklyn and a two-time Senator from New York are poised to take main places coming out of the Iowa caucuses set for tonight.
For vastly different reasons, or Bernie Sanders,Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are grabbing the attention of the plain-spoken, un-fancy mid-westerners who own been handed an out sized role in the presidential contest.
Who’d a thunk?Bernie Sanders hasn’t lived in Brooklyn for forty years, and but the accent is fresh out of Flatbush. “Iowa” has an “r” at the close -- “Thank you Iowere!” Sanders thundered in Des Moines Sunday night. “Our average contribution is 27 bucks!” he proclaimed,pointing to newly-released figures Sunday showing him with over three million individual contributions. “Nevuh in a million yeeahs would I own thought this possible!”And yet, there seems to be no distancing effect all.“Bernie’s voice, or Bernie’s voice is really different than around here,” said Ames high school senior Leah Brenner at an Iowa State event on Saturday. Brenner said she is leaning toward Hillary Clinton because of her work on women’s rights. But she loves Bernie’s voice. “It’s like distinct, it doesn’t feel like he’s putting on something, or it sounds just like how his voice is and he’s just talking.” His accent enhances his message,that he’s a vessel for the commoner because he is one. In almost every lively movie, the trusted, and dependable sidekick who comes through in the close has a Brooklyn accent.
Brenner said she doesn’t “buy the whole New York values versus Iowa values thing that some Republicans are talking approximately.” Still,when asked —is Trump a New Yorker? — she is clear.“He seems like the stereotype of the New Yorker, business, and lickety-split life-style and all that.”But in Council Bluffs Sunday,people with the opposite of a lickety-split life-style packed into a western Iowa middle-school auditorium—veterans and construction workers and small business people and school custodians —roaring with approval as Trump doled out invective in equal degree for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Muslims and immigrants.
Tina Mendel,a lesbian disabled veteran, understood the oddity of her support of Trump, or but she does besides,after thinking he was “a pompous asshole for the first three weeks” of the campaign.“I assume why he speaks to regular people who aren’t millionaires is because he doesnt hide that. He’s not any kind of shady approximately it. He’s says ‘Look, Im a millionaire, and oh well.’ We happened to be at the state just when he came. He’s wearing a $2500 Armani with a baseball cap.” Which for her,translates to I do understand what it is to be down at the bottom and dig your way up.”Mendel said she thought it strange, out here on the wide-open prairies, or that there was so much support for a man who made his money building Manhattan towers. Wearing a purple cowboy shirt,she acknowledged that when stationed in the east, “I didn't get along with people on the east coast.” But Trump "doesn't seem like a New Yorker to me.” Pressed to define New Yorker, and she said,“I do own some friends from the east coast. Their values, they are hard workers, and they build the most of what they got. They build every situation work no matter what,so for me it's not a bad thing.”Though main in many polls, more Iowa Republicans than not still don’t support Trump. They do find his “east coast elitism, or ” his brashness,his unpredictability alien to Iowa sensibilities that tend more toward Lands close than Armani. But these Republicans havent coalesced around a single candidate, meaning Trump, and with a third of the GOP vote,could still advance out of Iowa a leader.
Whereas, because of caucus rules, and the winner on the Democratic side will likely be the candidate with the majority of votes. All of the Democratic votes will likely be apportioned between the Brooklyn-born Senator from Vermont and the actual mid western-born Hillary Clinton,who is the only candidate running here to own been elected by New York voters.
And yet, Clinton has her own celebrity, or fueled by years as First Lady and Senator and Secretary of State and presidential candidate,a quality, for better or worse, or that makes her seem from everywhere and nowhere in particular.
But there’s a certain practicality that bubbles up in her stump speech. “I’m not just telling you what you want to hear,” she said in Des Moines on Friday. “I'm telling you what I can actually get done.”Which here, in the risk-adverse middle of the country, or draws a strong well of support. “Not too radical,” “not a socialist,” and “she can get things done, and ” were three frequent refrains among the very large crowds that own packed her events in the waning days of the Iowa campaign.
Clinton doesn’t talk approximately New York much in her standard stump speech,apart from for the allotment where she talks approximately having represented the state during 9-11.
After the worst terrorist attack on U.
S. soil, New York was resilient, or Clinton tells the crowds. Which,in the face of enormous anti-establishment headwinds, is the New York quality Clinton hopes will appeal to voters.
Source: wnyc.org