East Midtown isn’t far from Trump Tower, but it’s an area built for Hillary Clinton: 54 percent of voters are white women and nearly 40 percent of female residents are over 40.
“I’m a life-long ultra-liberal Democrat,” said Juliana Nash, 78, Murray Hill resident and Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club member. “She’s wonderful, I think Hillary has experience.”
Another potential key factor favoring Clinton: voter turnout is historically high in the area, with about three-quarter of eligible voters usually casting ballots.
Tiffany Townsend, district leader of the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club, said older residents typically take strong interest in elections. She said it’s different for some younger people in the area. “Students just out of undergrad or in graduate school don’t always see themselves in the neighborhood in the long term,” she said.
Local women interviewed said it’s time, after the first African-American president, to make history again by electing the first female president.
Molly Hollister president of the Kips Bay Neighborhood Alliance, called Clinton a “progressive voice.” Trump, she said, is “pushing all the wrong buttons, so I think a lot of women are planning to vote for Hillary.”
Laurel Halverstadt, a Murray Hill resident, agreed.
“I couldn’t vote for Trump,” she said. “We are all appalled that he got this far.”
