Vegas electoral oddity

Today's Las Vegas Sun has a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of how President-elect Barack Obama won the Las Vegas metro area. In colorful map form, it shows Obama winning Downtown (handily) and most of the Strip … save for MGM Mirage's string of properties from New York-New York northward through Bellagio. (Yes, you can tell your friends a Republican won "New York" this year.) I'm happy to report that my neighborhood went pretty gosh-darn "blue," while unassailable fortresses of support for Sen. John McCain included CityCenter, The Cosmopolitan and Monte Carlo, along with Summerlin, Boulder City, Southern Highlands and that hotbed of populism, Lake Las Vegas.