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NYC's 'Elite' Happy for Reinforcements: McInerney

Obama added middle-class whites in winning coalition, author writes

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(Newser) – New York celebrated Tuesday night, cheers ringing through Manhattan. “The last time a stranger hugged me on the street was September 11, 2001,” author Jay McInerney writes in the Independent, hailing the broadened coalition that made Barack Obama’s victory possible. “This moment feels like the obverse of that. … After 8 long, dark years, we feel that history is with us again.”

John McCain called New York and Washington the headquarters of the liberal elite, and “imagined the rest of the country would nod their heads and sneer.” Instead, middle-class, white voters in Florida, Ohio and Virginia decided to change course. “We should feel glad to have them back,” McInerney writes. “After all, a liberal elite can’t run a democracy by itself.”

A crowd celebrates the victory of President-elect Barack Obama on the street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, early Wednesday morning, Nov. 5, 2008 in New York.
A crowd celebrates the victory of President-elect Barack Obama on the street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, early Wednesday morning, Nov. 5, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Members of a crowd in Times Square react as different TV networks call the presidential race for Barack Obama, Nov. 4, 2008.
Members of a crowd in Times Square react as different TV networks call the presidential race for Barack Obama, Nov. 4, 2008.   (AP Photo)
People celebrate in support of President-elect Barack Obama on election day early yesterday in the Harlem section of New York.
People celebrate in support of President-elect Barack Obama on election day early yesterday in the Harlem section of New York.   (AP Photo)
People celebrate the victory of President-elect Barack Obama in Manhattan's Union Square, Nov. 4, 2008.
People celebrate the victory of President-elect Barack Obama in Manhattan's Union Square, Nov. 4, 2008.   (AP Photo)
People celebrate the victory of President-elect Barack Obama in Manhattan's Union Square Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 in New York.
People celebrate the victory of President-elect Barack Obama in Manhattan's Union Square Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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