Reply #27: 51 states that vote in presidential elections [View All]

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And I think that Dean's gun stance is more than going to make up for his social liberalism. Colorado and Arizona are more libertarian than fundamentalistic; Missouri will be a tossup because it has a sizable gun nut population on the one hand and sizable union and fundie populations (the former won't be very enthusiastic about Dean, whereas the latter will be thoroughly pissed with his being a secularist); Michigan will probably go Democratic because of both gun nuts and Arabs; hell, even Tennessee might go Dem if Dean manages to campaign on "when did you last get a raise?" and "you and not I will choose your gun laws."