Tich,
Come on man, I know you are smarter than that. It's not about making people feel safer. Do you think there was a reason that the vote pretty much mimicked, wih a few exceptions, the pattern it did last election? Everyone knows that no matter what NY and Cali will always vote Democrat, they are very very liberal areas respectively. It was a majority (30) states that decided the election, not NY or Cali.
Safer has little to do with it, it is all a matter of liberal vs, conservative. Conservative areas went bush, while liberal areas went Kerry.
Try not to try and make it into a whole NYC doesn't feel safer issue, I know you are smarter than that.
