SFist: Voting Yes On 8, Small SoMa Pocket Bucks Neighborhood Trend

howsfvotes

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:03:04 -0800

David Latterman is right about the Asian population. Also, there is a high percentage of people 62 y/o and over in that precinct. I haven't verified this but I think that there must be a retirement village in that precinct. There is certainly one in the precinct to the South-West (which is also slightly more conservative than the surrounding areas). This precinct has been more conservative than the rest of SoMa since at least 2004. Check out HowSFVotes and compare the Prop 8 map to the map for Prop D from March '04. That proposition had to do with domestic partner benefits and had a surprisingly similar map to Prop 8. Prop 8: http://www.howsfvotes.com/#08G:8;8:Y,8:N;P;2S Prop D: http://www.howsfvotes.com/#04P:D;D:Y,D:N;P;2S

allanh

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:09:33 -0800

Does this mean no more happy hour at the Rege?

johnjohn

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:36:46 -0800

Philipine retired folk and a catholic church. makes sense ?

David Latterman

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:34:54 -0800

Precinct 3627: 41% born in China, 13% born in Philippines. A lot of other foreign-born. Only 6% born in California. Rich foreign nationals in the hotels and some regular resident Asians in that part of SOMA. Around 760 registered voters also, average for the city. I don't know what it's turnout was, but I doubt it's an outlier. As we've seen, nothing about this prop matches normal SF voting patterns.

castroer

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:00:50 -0800

4th and Howard: That thing across from Moscone West? Above Jollibee? Massive senior housing complex.

manys

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:37 -0800

So I'm guessing there are 17 voters in that area.

The Angry Young Man

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:47:33 -0800

Say, aren't those blocks all occupied by loft dorms for students at Academy of Cordon Bleu University? Ah ha! It's the hipsters' fault. I now boycott all hipsters even more than I was boycotting them before.

RinconHillSF

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:00:27 -0800

Well ... I'll write it off as Four Seasons televangelists multimillionaires. :) Just kidding ... but really, how many people voted at that precient 3627 and who the heck are they? Maybe they're like that one 94105 zip code (Rincon Hill neighborhood, basically) person who seems to have been using a bogus address for her contribution (did you know there were people living at Club NV???? )... maybe bogus registrants on the voter rolls? Do people live at that old church by the Contemporary Jewish Museum? Just stabs int he dark....

sfdjhexhector

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:29:07 -0800

Actually, I live near there in some lofts and I can tell you that there are some strange creatures living in my building. To put it nicely, some of people look out of place (as in walnut creek, alameda ish) so I'm not surprised really. i walk around in my rainbow flag sometimes just to piss them off.

Ciaran

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:26:01 -0800

Doesn't a certain google employee live around there? The actual residential population for those blocks is probably so low that it only takes a couple of votes.

RinconHillSF

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:17:42 -0800

This doesn't look quite right .... St. Regis is on the east side of 3rd Street, if we're splitting hairs about the map. Who votes with an address of The Metreon or Old Navy? Hmmm ..... I say this is bad data/outlier type stuff.