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Abdi Mohamed

I live in South Minneapolis, and the people that live in my neighborhood are old people, young people, and people in the middle. The people have different opinions and they like to talk about different things in politics. To me, I’m friends with all of them because I consider myself a centrist. 

What I see for some of them is if they’re old they’re concerned with health care, if they’re young they’re concerned with education, and the middle are always concerned about education and health and safety, so it’s kind of like everybody has different ways to answer and to talk about politics in my neighborhood, so we actually sometimes are divided. 

I have lived in South Minneapolis since 1997, but even in Somalia I was a centrist and always liked to sit down and debate and talk to them and that’s who I am. I’ll vote for an issue, not a person. Another thing helping me was that I was driving cabs for 5 years and now I drive limos and before that I worked at the airport, and driving cabs makes me understand people well, listen well, and communicate well and that was educational for me.

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Chad Sivertson



Our neighborhood is very mixed and I do not think that the neighborhood as a whole reflects my values. Talking to people, when the subject of politics comes up, it’s not along the same lines as me.  We can come to a common agreement and each see each other’s point, but I personally can’t make them vote for McCain. 

In my precinct, the caucus was overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney, who I think is a great guy but that was amazing.  I was totally baffled by how he can have that much sway in there, maybe I don’t watch TV enough but I felt like I didn’t fit in that way.

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Eric Pone



I’m a moderate and I live in a die-hard blue area. I tend to be middle-of-the-road. Being an African American, the assumption is I’ll always vote liberal, be a Democrat. I am fiscally conservative, and socially moderate. I would be a liberal evangelical. 

It’s frustrating from the standpoint that in the suburbs there’s an overreliance on the individual to resolve all of their problems. The exact opposite happens in the city where there is an overreliance on government to solve all of the issues that really need more private engagement to solve – businesses, foundations. 

I’ve lived here over 10 years, and my views have become very, very strong. I have a real strong heart for the poor but I’ve really developed an extremely intense understanding of the fact that there has to be communal responsibility for solutions. For me personally, my neighborhood made that particular view stronger because every day I come in contact with people who have provisional authority to do something to resolve a problem but they make excuses as to why they can’t. That’s the frustrating thing, treating the symptoms but never wanting to solve the problem. I see that in my neighborhood – the decline of the small business community, homes going into foreclosure. There needs to be a serious shift in how the businesses are run, and we need to encourage more small business to evolve locally.

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Kathleen Thorsell


I live in a mixed neighborhood politically. It has evolved over the 43 years that I have lived here. I can find people in the neighborhood who do reflect my views. When we first moved into this area, I would say it was more conservative. Since then, it has become more diverse and is quite Democratic now. There are several gay couples in our neighborhood, immigrants, people from different ethnic backgrounds, and it’s good mix.  We’ve done a lot of door knocking.  It’s so fascinating meeting people. That’s how we know that it has changed.

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Melenie Soucheray
If you look at the last gubernatorial race and the breakdown of where the votes came from, my area had the strongest percentage of votes going to peter Hutchinson. I am very strongly a small \"i\" independent. I feel like my neighborhood is very compatible with my political leanings. I imagine that this neighborhood wouldn’t call itself independent as much as a pretty purple neighborhood. It’s a great mixture of Democrats and Republicans. 

This neighborhood is, I would venture to say, well-educated, and people living here have pretty good roots in the neighborhood. They are the same people who went over to Ramsey Junior High for the DFL caucus and lined up around the block. They are pretty active about staying on top of the issues and are pretty open-minded about the different positions. I think it’s pretty reflective of where I am. People are kind of live and let live types and that’s pretty much in line with my philosophy too. I may not agree with everything, but at least I know they’re going to let me have my opinion. That’s why this neighborhood reflects my attitude.
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Richard Schrenk



My neighborhood is a townhome association. There are some other neighborhoods close by that are a little wealthier than mine, and it’s very strongly Republican. When it’s election time, I see a lot of Republican signs up and very, very few Democrats. Immediately in my townhome association it’s fairly mixed, but again you have to take into account that we’re one of the lower-income neighborhoods in the area. 

There is a teacher who lives next to me, and is also a Democrat, but most of the other neighbors that I talk to when I start discussing pros and cons of our current administration get very upset with me. Living here disappoints me - in most elections my vote gets way overwhelmed by the rest.  That’s a disappointment, even though it hasn’t changed my political views. I moved here 8 years ago because it was the best I could afford at the time I was looking.

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Sara Sternberger

I would say my neighborhood is mixed. I am such a liberal Republican that I kind of can go both ways. This isn’t the Republican Party I joined, but I still believe in some of the fundamental principles of the party. Our neighborhood has Republicans and Democrats, and I feel like I can walk the line between both and speak intelligently about issues that mean something to me and not feel ostracized. We’re probably going to have McCain and Obama signs in our yard.



 

Living in this neighborhood hasn’t changed my views at all. It seems that a growing trend in our society is that people are more reluctant to talk about their views – it’s ok to get on blogs and go to events and state political views, but with neighbors you just don’t know. Do I really want to bring up politics at neighborhood BBQs?
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