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Manning the barricades
“Greenwich is not Trump Country”
The analysis of the 2020 voting in Greenwich given in “Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury” by Evan Osnos portrays Greenwich as going from the politics of Prescott Bush to the vulgarian Donald Trump. Greenwich is described as aligned with the Koch brothers and other elements pushing the Republican Party further rightward. As support, Osnos writes that Greenwich’s District 10 (which approximates the Golden Triangle) voted for Clinton by two points in 2016 while voting for Trump by 13 points in 2020. The voting record does not support these claims, District 10 voted for Biden when the absentee ballots are included in the tally.
The 2020 vote in Greenwich and the other highest income Zip codes in Connecticut indicate Trump did very poorly in these Zip codes running behind John McCain and Mitt Romney as well as behind his weak performance of 2016. Biden was +20 in Connecticut overall, about six points better than Hillary Clinton. In 2016 and in 2020 Trump trailed Republicans running for state and federal office in Greenwich and in District 10.
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The voting results for Greenwich in 2016 and 2020 indicate that Trump did poorly, not only in comparison to Romney’s performance in 2012, McCain’s in 2008 but to Republicans running for state and federal office in both elections. In 2020, in District 10, in the in person voting — mostly Republicans — Trump received 8 percent to 16 percent fewer votes than the other four Republicans on the ballot. The voting record contradicts the notion that either Greenwich or District 10 has shifted toward Trump.
Philip Bolton of West Hartford is a professor emeritus of chemistry at Wesleyan University.
The question I have is whether the good professor had this analysis prepared and scheduled for publication before this week’s revolution, or did he rush it into print to salve the jittery nerves of Greenwich’s Gin & Tonic Republicans? I don’t know the answer, but I can report that, passing the Round Hill Club yesterday, I noticed the Caddy Master drilling members in the proper defensive use of mashies and niblicks.
Just sayin’.