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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (19452)	9/22/2009 8:59:11 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

*Re: "He said he believed that the GOP was morphing into the American equivalent of the Parti Quebecois. It is essentially a regional party now - representing the South in the national discourse."* Hard to argue that that isn't an apt analogy when considering the polling results displayed on that chart. I admit to being surprised by at least one facet of the regional preferences posted on the chart: the results (very negative for the GOP, as are the results for two other regions... with only the South running contrary to the national trend) for the West. (I assume that those results for the 'West region' conflate both the Pacific coast states and the 'Mountain West', but I'm surprised that the over-all results within this 'West region' are so negative... only very marginally less negative then the Midwest's results. Must be the weighted average of the much greater population densities along the Pacific. That, and Texas and maybe OK are likely rolled into the 'South region'. I assume that the pollsters tried to work with four major 'regions' (Northeast, Midwest, West, South) that are at least approximately equal in populations....)