There’s a familiar trope among right-leaning pundits: the Georgetown cocktail party. It’s used to describe the supposedly out-of-touch limousine liberal attitude that dominates the Washington political social scene.
But as the election on Tuesday showed, maybe this trope is misplaced. You see, for Washington there sure are a lot of Republicans in Georgetown.
Versus the rest of the city, Georgetown’s two voting precincts didn’t produce the most votes for Romney as a matter of total votes or percentage; but they were close.
Here’s where the GOP lives in DC:
- Precinct 12: 37.8% to Romney – Observatory/Normanstone
- Precinct 9: 36.3% – Spring Valley
- Precinct 6: 28.4% – West Georgetown
- Precinct 130: 28.4% – Within a couple blocks of the Capitol
- Precinct 5: 25.8% – East Georgetown
- Precinct 7: 25.7% – MacArthur/Foxhall
- Precinct 8: 25.0% – Palisades
- Precinct 10: 22.9% – Wesley Heights
- Precinct 4: 22.7% – West End
- Precinct 3: 21.7% – West Foggy Bottom
So, chances are that there are a bunch of Republicans at that Georgetown cocktail party. Of course, most Washingtonian’s response to this information would be “and that’s why I don’t go to Georgetown.” But it just demonstrates how out of date the “Georgetown cocktail party” trope is.