and say -- we don't have any Republicans in New England, we don't have any Republicans in the Mid-Atlantic states.
If they say that they would be making a false statement. There are Republicans in every one of those areas, and in Virginia (a mid-Atlantic state) the results where similar to the national results (a small Obama advantage), while in New Hampshire (a New England State) the results where not far from the national average. Even in Massachusetts, a Democratic stronghold, Romney got over a third of the vote. Obama got 60 percent or more of the vote only in Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, MD and DC, and over 70 percent of the vote only in DC (I haven't actually seen the DC results, but DC is probably the only place with electoral votes, where the "don't have any Republicans" statement isn't all that far from the truth, and I assume its over 70 percent, if I'm wrong please correct me.).
Meanwhile the Dems in a victory (and this would be more pronounced in any election they lose) in the huge area of the south and non-coastal west, only won 4 or 5 states (and none of those by more than about 53%). A stronger Republican candidate (which admittedly might not have been available out out of those running in the Republican primary this year), could have won the election. Rounding off its a 50% to 48% election, not a landslide. |
