Is your state red or blue?

[Check12]

We really know that they are some shade in between but according to the polls what color is your state

[Fox Mulder]

1. Minnesota--Blue

THANK GOD!

[NMMNG]

2. Allegedly blue

Not that you could tell by the gaggles of SUVs with "W" and other Rethug bumper stickers running around here :eyes:.

[PittPoliSci]

32. Pennsylvania, by chance?

Cause I've got tons of that going on here in metro-Pittsburgh.

[I Have A Dream]

49. Hi, PittPoliSci. In Pittsburgh, it's mostly the suburbs though that...

have the W stickers, from what I saw. During the 2004 election, It always felt so wonderful going into Pittsburgh proper because it seemed that most people supported Kerry. I found myself "having" to go into Pittsburgh more and more often just so I could have my morale boosted.

[PittPoliSci]

56. Yeah, I felt the same way.

The further east you go, the more crazy it becomes. When you get out towards Greensburg, it's downright shameful how much money the Republicans spent on campaigns. Plus the Trib, ugh, I get sick just thinking about the Trib...

[I Have A Dream]

61. I don't live in the east, and it's really, really bad where I live too.

I walked in my neighborhood every morning during the summer, and I'd just cringe when I saw one of the Trib's red plastic wrapped papers in a neighbor's driveway. Red is VERY appropriate!

I worked with MoveOn during the elections, and we were going from lists of registered Democrats. It was amazing how many of them said that they were going to vote for B*.

:puke:

[Dark]

3. Ohio, as red as the ink all over our budget.

Yea, we're the one with the idiot (R) governor who got caught in >sigh< another scandal.

This one involved coins and golf.

Seriously. Coins and Golf.

At least when Dems are involved in a scandal, it's interesting!

[Jamastiene]

34. I know what you mean.

All these indictments for serious corruption and there are no morality preachers saying a word, yet back when Clinton got caught cheating on his wife, they wouldn't quit asking, "What will we tell the children?" Why aren't they asking that now?

[recoveringdittohed]

38. I'm in Ohio, also. It's slightly Red

Blue on top (Cleveland) & red on the bottom (Cincinnati). Hopefully Ohio is the process of turning blue.

[sasquatch]

48. I think we did turn blue but uncle Blackwell stole it as blue

[realisticphish]

70. red? nah

purple

[MrScorpio]

4. Virginia is red by default

The blue-red dynamic is usually pretty calm. (Except for Jerry FUCKING Kilgore)


Blue folks can find a home here, despite the crimsonosity


Newport News is Bobby Scott country, safely so.

[Lilith Velkor]

69. The northern bit is solid purple

It may tip to the blue side sooner than you think.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Washington -- Blue (at least on the west side of the state)

Though there are some Blue Staters on the east side of the mountains.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. Same here..

Is Seattle considered part of the Willamette Valley? Oregon votes blue but the folks on the east tend to vote red (perhaps Ashland and Medford too). I'm not sure of the coast. Lane county is really blue.

[AntiCoup2K4]

36. I think the Willamette valley ends at the Columbia river.

But Oregon & Washington are pretty much the same, geographically & politically speaking. Your Democratic votes are close to the water and along the I-5 corridor. The further you get away from either is also the further you get from reality (and start voting for the Chimp and believing idiots like Tim Eyman or the Oregon Citizens Alliance (are those goddamned idiots still around?)

[AntiCoup2K4]

35. So how did we get stuck with a corporatist DLC senator?

Or maybe two of them, the way Murray's been voting lately :(

[Celeborn Skywalker]

6. New Mexico

We're technically Red but it doesn't feel that way to me. I think there was some Republican election fraud that went on down here anyway.

[Check12]

7. Hey, The bar graph colors match! n/.t

[Robeson]

8. My state is Red, but fortunately, I live in the the big Blue spot in the..

...middle of it, Nashville, which is the Democratic heartland of the state. We're an island of blue, in a sea of red.

[Seabiscuit]

9. My state is blue but I live in a big red spot in the south of it.

Fortunately, the red spot's only 52.5% red, and I live in the blue area of the red spot.

San Diego, CA.

[Robeson]

12. I lived in Memphis for a little while when I was going for my....

...graduate degree. And there was a blue spot in that city. I just had to seach and find it - and live there while I was going to school. The rest of the city, really weighed down on me after a little while. I couldn't wait to get out and get back to where I grew up, which is controlled by the Blue Machine.

[XemaSab]

47. My state's blue

But I live in that giant red chasm in the north. :(

[LostInAnomie]

11. Indiana - Red as Red can be.

We haven't gone blue since Johnson.

[hfojvt]

13. well, unlike, say, California or Minnesota,

we have a Democratic governor. I think 'swing state' should also be an option along with solid blue, or solid red. The 45-55 spread either way would be swing. Otherwise, how do you call Iowa which was blue when I lived there and wrote LTTEs and worked for Gore, but turned red after I left? What about SD, which always votes for Repub presidents but often has Democratic Senators and statewide Representatives?
I think we need a scoring system, one point per representative, two per senator, two for governor, and two for every five points over fifty in the last Presidential election. Thus SD has 3 blue points, and 8 red points. Iowa has 5 blue points and 6 red points. Hmm, there probably should be one point for the state house and two for the state senate as well.

[southlandshari]

14. The reddest.

Next question.

[hfojvt]

59. Don't flatter (or depress) yourself

Alabama 2000
Bush - 941,173
Gore - 692,611
57.6% Bush

Kansas 2000
Bush - 622,232
Gore - 399,276
60.9% Bush

Utah 2000
Bush - 515,096
Gore - 203,053
71.7% Bush

Wyoming 2000
Bush - 147,947
Gore - 60,481
70.98% Bush

People think the south is red, it ain't got nuthin on the West.

[Zero Division]

15. Iowa - Red, by only 10,000 votes

:cry:

Bush - 751,957 votes or 49.90%

Kerry - 741,898 votes or 49.23%

Iowa is a good example of what a truly deep purple state looks like.

[hfojvt]

58. Back when I lived there, it was blue

Gore - 638,517
Nader - 29,374
not Bush - 667,891
Bush - 634,373

Did they extra 117,584 Bush voters come out of the Iowa Public School system, or what?

[darkism]

16. Blue, thank god.

Illinois, to be exact. Home of the World Champion White Sox AND Patrick Fitzgerald.

What a great land. :D

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Blue, but only because of NYC.

The rest of the state, including my blood-red district, is serious Freeper country. But I sure know many exceptions...:D

[Robeson]

18. Hey Rhiannon! Alway's happy to see you....

...and I'm sorry you have to live in serious Freeper country. Its a shame. I've visited up-state New York many times, and I have to say, in Summertime, that's one the most beautiful areas in the U.S. I've ever been. It's a shame that so many repukes live there.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Thanks, Robeson! It's always great to see you, as well! :D

But it's true, as lovely as my northern NY community is, the majority seem to be Freepers.:-( I was totally depressed, before the election, at the proliferation of Bush*-Cheney lawn signs and bumper stickers, and even a few hold-outs who still have Lazio (Hillary Clinton's opponent) stickers on their pick-ups. Most local elections are decided in the Republican primaries because no Democrat can win here. *sigh* I was even accosted, on election day, in the parking lot of my local PetsMart, by a Freeper who objected to my bumper stickers... But I know enough, now, thanks in a large part to DU, to take anybody on, and I have, LOL!:D But my friends are kindred spirits, and one of them just joined DU! And another one just called me, today, livid that anyone is still supporting Bush*! So we're fighting the good fight, even here in the North Country.:7

Rhiannon:hi:

[Mizmoon]

26. I always get a good chuckle out of Lazio stickers

I can still visualize him with that big fat lip as he marched over to Hillary's podium and demanded that she sign some weird document.

What a maroon.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I still see an awful lot of them around here... unbelievable, to me.

I agree, he was pretty lame, but when he made a campaign appearance around here, my Freeper mother and sicko brother went to see him, even had their pix taken with him.:eyes: And my mother has the gall to ask me if I'm not "embarrassed" to be still driving around with a "New Yorkers for Kerry-Edwards" bumper sticker on my car... So I tell her that at least he won!!!:grr:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. California.

:)

[libodem]

Idaho is said to be the most Republican state in the nation

I'm a minority :)

[libodem]

20. Idaho is said to be the most Republican state in the nation

I'm a minority :)

[Left Is Write]

65. I'm in that minority with you.

[njdemocrat106]

21. Blue

But I live in a blood-red county :( .

[Jamastiene]

22. I live in a God forsaken red state and

I don't know where I would go if I DID happen to win the lottery. Any blue state would be a major upgrade just because the ratio of progressives to right wing nut jobs would be tilted in my favor. There seems to be a majority of compassionate progressive people in blue states, and I mean REAL progressives. Even the majority of the dems in NC are still conservative and they don't even seem to know it.

[Awsi Dooger]

23. Nevada is red, and unfortunately staying that way

The state's turn toward blue is mostly a myth. I guess you have to live here to understand that. The rural conservative vote, including the miners, is much more enthused and dependable than Clark County Democrats, especially in midterm years. Plus 9/11 spiked a terrorism fear that turned southern Nevada more national security minded, worried that the big hotels were logical future targets. Plenty of high income transplanted westerners are making up for the influx of Hispanics.

I'm just hoping we can turn some of the major statewide races next year, especially governor. Oscar Goodman is unlikely to run. He would likely defeat the GOP nominee Jim Gibbons. Otherwise, our best hope is Henderson mayor Jim Gibson, who is a more conservative Democrat than ideal but probably a better general election candidate than current Democratic frontrunner Dina Titus.

[newyawker99]

25. New York.....blue

[Rhiannon12866]

31. Not upstate, I'm afraid, my friend.

As I said in my original post, NY is only blue because of NYC! In my neck of the woods, most local races are decided in the Republican primary! It seems as if any yahoo can get elected around here, and many do, if only they're Republican!:grr:

[Clintmax]

27. Florida is blue...

no matter WHAT they try to do to us during the elections!

[deadparrot]

29. Red Missouri. *sob* nt

[NNadir]

30. Joisy.

Blue baby, blue.

[BlueWolf]

33. Had to get out of my red home state, now in blue Chicago

I was born and raised in Alaska. I love elements of it, but it really began to make me feel repressed the older I got. So I finally packed my bags to go live with my sister in Chicago. It really makes a big difference. I feel more at home in Chicago than I ever did in the town I was born and raised.

[ThatsMyBarack]

42. Welcome to Chicago!

Now go home. (J/K! Hahahaha!)

:hi: :hippie:

[BlueWolf]

78. Thanks!

I love this city! :)

[tavalon]

37. You need an other category

I live in Austin and in Seattle (it's a long story). So sometimes, I live in a blue state, sometimes in a very red state.

[huskerlaw]

39. Blue!!!

I just moved from Nebraska to Los Angeles. I'm loving the blue. ;)

[NYdemocrat089]

40. New York - Blue

Although I think my part of the state tends to be a little to the right. I know Bush won in my county in 2004.

[ThatsMyBarack]

41. IL is Blue....

....and so is WI, thanks to my mom. She worked her tail off to help get it that way! ;)

[Borgnine]

43. Virginia.

Although it's not blood red. It's a nice place to live if you're blue. You run into about as many Republicans as you would anywhere else.

[arwalden]

51. Virginia Is Very UN-Friendly To Gay Couples.

[Mutley]

44. Blue, barely.

If it weren't for the Baltimore and DC areas, Maryland would likely be red.

[IDemo]

45. Infrared Idaho

[ZombieNixon]

46. Both.

I'm registered to vote in New Mexico, a slightly red state, but live in Illinois, a deep blue state!

[I Have A Dream]

50. Pennsylvania - blue, but not comfortably so. n/t

[charlie and algernon]

73. PA here too

yeah, i think we're more of a purple-ish shade now unfortunately. dark blue in Philly, but dark red in the the central part of the state

[bigwillq]

52. Connecticut=Blue

:bounce:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

53. Yellow

(Sorry for being awkward! It's the colour of the Liberal Democrat Party.)

[serryjw]

54. I live in CO and we are purple

won back BOTH state houses after 45 years so that says something including making Owens a lame duck,

[scarlet_owl]

55. Illinois. We're blue.

[ignatius 2]

57. Indiana -red-although we do have one dem senator(Bahy) and at this point

most are wishing we had back our democratic governor because Mitch Daniels stinks.Instead of my man Mitch(his bumpersticker slogan) I am hearing more of let;s ditch Mitch.

I don't know why we are a red state because this is a state based on blue collar jobs, I suspect it has more to do with the fact that Elwood,Indiana was the first home for the Ku Klux Klan and the fact that fundamentalism runs strong through here, we are in the Bible Belt.

What I can't figure out is when people equated religion to Repugs..they are incompatable..it seems as if the snake oil salesmen have done their work in this state.

A blue collar voting for a repug is sheer stupidity but I fear that racism,no matter how hard (civilized)hoosiers try to hide it,is still deeply inbeddd in many in this state.

I have or should say had a friend whose 13 year old daughter rode on a wagon to the pumpkin patch. Her daughter said something like let's play slaves if we can find some chains.

Her mom thought that was hilarious and repeated it over and over to anyone who would listen. I said that is stupid and disgusting and I haven't heard from her since.

Oh well....

[Ladyhawk]

60. Blue state; red county.

D'OH!

[RetroLounge]

62. Wisconsin - Blue!

Dem Gov, 2 Dem Senators...

RL

[alarcojon]

67. Blue by the skin of our teeth

I think if you, I, Rev Cheesehead and a couple other DUer's moved out, it would tip to red!

But yes, we DO have Doyle, Kohl, and especially Feingold.

[no name no slogan]

63. Minnesota-- only state to go bluer in 2004 than 2000

Although we currently have a Repub governor and Repub majority in the state house (by only two seats). Also, 1/2 of our congressional and senate delegations are also Repubs.

All that will change in 2006, though-- the way the Repubs have been screwing up the state, we're only going to go bluer.

[redsoxliberal]

64. blue... and very gay! :D

Massachusetts!
Taxachusetts
assachusetts

I love it all.

I'm straight as an arrow... but I'm so damn proud that MA was the first state to legalise gay marriage. :D

[Initech]

66. Red county in a blue state

Orange County, California

[Momgonepostal]

75. Same here, same state

Stanislaus County

[KLF44]

68. Michigan is blue but

the county I live in is red.

[caty]

71. Michigan--blue

but, I've been to several red states and have yet to talk to a repub. I always seem to find Dems in red states.

[Lilith Velkor]

72. It's indigo blue but not a state

Rosa Parks lies in state therein this night.

[Withywindle]

74. true blue Chicago, IL

Under Gov. Blagojevich (D), Mayor Daley (D), Sens. Durbin and Obama (D), Rep. Gutierrez (D), etc., etc...:D

[obxhead]

76. so red its one of the top 10...

we gotta put the bible back into science states.

[u4ic]

77. Blue - however

north of the 49th the conservative party colour is blue. x(

[DainBramaged]

79. Joisey, and don't ask me what fecking exit