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To: bentway who wrote (37324)	8/8/2005 10:44:46 PM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 306849

I think the 5 largest counties in Florida are blue though in total the state went red. Surely Vegas too must be blue even though the state voted red? Then that leaves Phoenix as the only bubble market to still be red. Or did I miss something<g>

To: bentway who wrote (37324)	8/9/2005 9:37:43 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

(OT) The electoral-cultural divide has been around for some time (though it was masked in '92 and '96 by Perot; Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote, but won by an electoral landslide in '96 and a near-landslide in '92). If anything, over time the red states will become more red and the blue states more blue. GWB had a larger % of the popular vote in nearly every state in 2004 compared with 2000. The states with the largest GOP gain in popular vote % were the marginally red states, but even the deep red states had gains in GOP votes. There are many reasons for this political trend. Suffice it to say that "blue staters" are not monolithically Democratic, just as "red staters" are not knee-jerk Republican. The red-blue dichotomy was an interesting idea when put forth by David Brooks in the Atlantic over four years ago. He didn't intend it to be a master narrative for our political culture. It has become precisely that for a segment of the urban aspirational class, not that that should surprise us. <g>