Romney turning blue

Fluttershy said:
Indiana's move to blue in 2008 was a very limited circumstance. North Carolina was still a swing state in 2012, and bears little resemblance to what occurred there. The thing about NC is that there are a great deal of hardcore liberal, a great deal of hardcore conservatives, and very little swing voters in between. That makes it somewhat of an odd swing state, an inelastic one. This is in contrast to New Hampshire, where there are a great deal of people who may go one way or the other in any election.

Here's an article on what happened in Indiana:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...le-as-battleground-indiana-exits-stage-right/

It has nothing to do with a Republican governor turning them red. Indiana has always been a strongly red state, Obama was just able to wildly overachieve there due to a number of particular factors that didn't reoccur in 2012.
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Basically my point was states change and I personally think this whole blue and red state thing is stupid because there are very states like California or Texas that are completely dominated by one party.
 
cawacko said:
Basically my point was states change and I personally think this whole blue and red state thing is stupid because there are very states like California or Texas that are completely dominated by one party.
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California actually used to be a swing state. Now it seems to be turning almost into the bluest in the country.

Texas, though, is completely dominated by one party, and has always been completely dominated by one party. The "one party" in question just happened to change.
 
Fluttershy said:
California actually used to be a swing state. Now it seems to be turning almost into the bluest in the country.

Texas, though, is completely dominated by one party, and has always been completely dominated by one party. The "one party" in question just happened to change.
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George H.W. Bush in '88 was the last Republican President California voted for. I believe it was '92 when Republicans last controled one of the branches of the state legislature. There have been Republican Governors. Today is the most dominated California has been by Democrats with all state wide offices and a supermajority in the legislature.

It seems Massachuttes would be in competition for the bluest state with a Democratic Governor and over 80% of the state legislature controlled by Democrats.
 
cawacko said:
George H.W. Bush in '88 was the last Republican President California voted for. I believe it was '92 when Republicans last controled one of the branches of the state legislature. There have been Republican Governors. Today is the most dominated California has been by Democrats with all state wide offices and a supermajority in the legislature.

It seems Massachuttes would be in competition for the bluest state with a Democratic Governor and over 80% of the state legislature controlled by Democrats.
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Interestingly, Mass is one of the bluest states even when we have a repub Gov, which is fairly often.
 
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