Ed Driscoll, an Instapundit regular, posts a substantial excerpt from a National Review article which raises interesting questions.
Democrats have puzzled over why Biden did not perform as well in cities as expected, and conversely, why Trump seemed to overperform in them. Overall, Biden won major metro areas, but his slippage compared with Trump’s gains was notable.
Trump gained in every borough of New York City except Staten Island (where he was already a favorite) compared with 2016. (snip) Compared with 2016, he gained votes in cities such as Philadelphia and Detroit, the latter of which gave Trump 5,000 more votes than in 2016 and Biden 1,000 fewer than Hillary Clinton won. As pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson has noted, even though Joe Biden won major metros as expected, closer scrutiny of a number of blue cities reveals blue doughnuts: As Democrats increased their command of the suburbs, their hold on inner cities weakened.
The article’s author seems puzzled by this trend. My view: a party which caters to college-educated suburban voters, which the Democrats have become, will appear disinterested in (and uninteresting to) the less educated, who make up the bulk of inner city voters. Add to this the really pathetic job Democrat machine politicians do of managing urban life, which the article’s author notes, and urban D votes will be lost.
Later ... Free associating about “blue doughnuts” somehow surfaced the mental image of hemorrhoid cushions, which thankfully I’ve never needed.
