What is the status of your state now?

[ccharles000]

North Carolina

Before-red

After-Blue


Governor-

Before-Easley (D)

After- Perdue (D)

Senate-

Before- Dole(R)

After- Hagan (D)

House-

Before- 6 Repubs, 7 Dems

After- 8 Dems, 5 Repubs

[Colobo]

1. Florida is blue now!

[SwampG8r]

65. about time too

all we had to do was wait until WE were the retirees

[stray cat]

2. Broke!

[Mass]

3. Massachusetts - Dark Blue.

No Republicans in federal representation. Democratic Governor - Few Republicans in state House and Senate.

We can thank Mitt Romney for making that possible.

[sniffa]

51. Also our 4th year with gay marriage

:bounce:

[geekgrrl]

72. and the state hasn't gone totally to hell? lol nt

[rurallib]

4. Iowa - east is blue(r), west still red

added together it is bluer than before.

[Peacetrain]

25. We are going more purple out in western iowa..

There is hope for us yet.. :hi: (sorry about king, but we keep trying!!)

[dipsydoodle]

5. Sitting

about two foot for my monitor farting around on DU, checking out BBC News, listening to Doo Wop on Youtube links , drinking coffee , smoking a cigarette and my knees are telling me not to dance so much at my age.

[Demi_Babe]

6. I am so proud of my state of North Carolina but we can never give up...there's work to be done

[Occam Bandage]

7. MN: We'll just have to see, now won't we?

[azurnoir]

10. True enough

but as long Pawlenty is in office and the recount is not yet finished it's a debate between violet and wine colored

[dkf]

8. Hawaii is BLUE.

except for our Republican Governor Linda Lingle.

[MichiganVote]

9. Michigan- Dead broke. Michigan residents- Even more broke.

[blue_onyx]

52. LOL, very true

But as far as the OP:

Michigan

Before-Blue

After-Blue


Governor-

Before-Granholm (D)

After- no election

Senate-

Before- Levin(D)

After- Levin (D)

House-

Before- 9 Repubs, 6 Dems

After- 8 Dems, 7 Repubs

[MichiganVote]

59. Can it get worse in Michigan-sure. Will it? Hard to tell. If GM goes, it all goes.

[Eric J in MN]

11. MN stayed Democratic with regard to the presidential race.

There wasn't a governor's race this year, and we still have a Republican governor.

The US House seats remained 5 Democrats and 3 Republicans (a Republican Congressman retired but another Republican man won his seat.)

In the US Senate, we still have Amy Klobuchar (D), but a recount will determine if we still have Norm Coleman (R) or Al Franken (D.)

[Historic NY]

12. New York very, very, blue.

[codjh9]

13. Unfortunately, TX is red, and red again, BUT we had more blue counties this time, and in my Congres-

sional district, we re-elected one of our few good guys from TX, Lloyd Doggett, so it could've been worse. Now if we can just defeat Rick 'Bush Lite' Perry in 2 yrs (governor)...

[ccharles000]

28. Have hope

[crispini]

41. Rick Perry will be defeated by KBH in the primary

and she's going to make it a blowout. You heard it here first.

[Yukari Yakumo]

14. Purple

Dem - Gov, both Sen seats, State House (barely)

Rep - Lt. Gov, the only Rep, State Senate

[donheld]

15. Colorado

Was red is now blue.

[Zynx]

30. Deep blue at that. Dem Gov, two Dem Senators, a majority Dem House Delegation.

It's pretty hot out there. You still do have that Lamborn asshole, but oh well.

[rockymountaindem]

58. Hey! Watch your mouth. That "Lamborn asshole" is my Congressman!

:cry:

Well, I worked to oust him. Sadly, that will probably never happen now. On the bright side, he is such a dim bulb that he will probably never rise within the Republican ranks to any position of real power. Otherwise it was a pretty good year for us in my home state.

[Hawkeye-X]

62. His district is FotF territory.

They could run Satan as a Republican there, and they'll vote for him.

:eyes:

At least we have a chance to gerrymander FotF to a very blue district and kick Lamborn out in 2010 or 2012.

Hawkeye-X

[asjr]

16. Tennessee--chicken shit colored.

[mucifer]

17. IL gee I'm not sure

:bounce: :bounce:


well in all honesty our dem governor has a lower approval rating than bush. But, we love our dem senators!

[racaulk]

18. Georgia, still as red as ever.

Presidential Race:
Before - red (Bush by 17%)
After - red (McCain by 5%) <---that is a promising trend, looking forward to 2012...

Senate Race:
Before - Chambliss (R)
After - ??? (I'll note that Chambliss did win a plurality of the vote, even if he didn't get a majority, per state law)

Senate (other seat):
Isakson (R)

House:
Before - 7 R, 6 D
After - 7 R, 6 D (all incumbents won reelection)

State Senate:
Before - red
After - red

State House:
Before - red
After - red

[Dawgs]

70. +1

[sufrommich]

19. Michigan -Fucked

[JohnnyLib2]

20. Kentucky

Dem. gov. in 2006
Dem. reps held on

BUT we send McConnell and Bunning and things are red, red, red in most areas.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Blue-violet. Dem gov and reps, repub sens, went for Obama in most counties

[Catshrink]

22. Screwn: McCain and Vile Kyl

[Milspec]

23. Oklahoma

Just about fucking hopeless, unless we can increase immigration from the sane parts of the USA. It really is nice here, low cost of living, variety of landscape, nature, some arts here in Tulsa and OKC lower unemployment than the national average.

[a la izquierda]

71. Norman is still the best place to live...

:hi:

[JeanGrey]

74. It IS nice there. I have a sister in Tulsa and I love your state.

I especially love the churches.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Kansas still red

Dem governor

2 GOP Senators

Congress - 3 Repubs, 1 Dem (lost one Dem)

[alwysdrunk]

26. Ohio Baby!

After all the hand wringing, we managed to pull it out. We even flipped Hamilton County (Cincinnati)of all places. And sent sent Steve Chabot packing to boot!

[Booster]

27. California - on fire.

[Mz Pip]

29. And broke.

Send money and water.

[Zynx]

31. Wisconsin-Blue blue blue. Dem Gov, Obama landslide, two Dem Senators, majority Dem

House Delegation, and now a newly minted Democratic State Assembly to compliment our Democratic State Senate.

[ccharles000]

32. I have family in Oak Field, WI and they love it up there.

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[Blarch]

34. My Senator became President

[crimsonblue]

36. I'm sorry, I don't follow....

So is that a good thing? :P

[Blarch]

37. It's all good.

:bounce:

[crimsonblue]

35. Kansas continued its progress back to the 1800s.

The state went for McCain. Boyda lost. The State legislature got more red. I'm so happy to be living in one of the few remaining jesus freak states. Yippee. Sigh....

[Blarch]

38. Ah dude, thats a downer.

Maybe you should get out before Obama carpet bombs the state. :nuke:

[crimsonblue]

39. it's all good, in the things that really matter...

Kansas kicked ass at.. Namely Basketball.

[ccharles000]

49. Kansas can't be that bad you do have a Dem gov.

[ColbertWatcher]

40. Blue, on fire and trying to overturn Prop Hate. n/t

[PM7nj]

42. New Jersey - Getting Bluer!

14 out of 21 counties went for Obama, most by 60 to 70 percent! All but 1 of the South Jersey counties went for Obama. Lautenberg was easily reelected. Southern/Central NJ also elected a new Democratic Congressman, John Adler!

[tabbycat31]

54. unfortunately my county

Monmouth, still went red, but not by that much. I can't say I did not do my part as I did canvass and phone bank.

I still think Ocean County needs to be relocated to the south because they're so red.

[abq e streeter]

43. New Mexico----blue sweep!

Expanded state legislature majorities...And clean sweep of our congressional delegation; even in the solid red east side ( a sort of conservative Dem, but nothing else could possibly win there, and Teague is a decent guy by all accounts, and he beat a right wing loony repub). Love having Heather ( HELP!!!! I saw a nipple on TV) Wilson out of congress....And of course we still have Bill Richardson as Gov; who knows for how much longer, but a Dem Lt. Gov ( Diane Denish) ready to go if Richardson becomes Sec. of State etc...

[gauguin57]

44. Pennsylvania is interesting ... our Lt. Gov just died, so we have Dem gov and Repub Lt. gov.

I think this is the first time the two have been from different parties. In Pennsylvania, if the governor leaves or dies (like when Tom Ridge went to Homeland Security) the lt. gov moves up and the state senate president pro tem takes on the lt. gov's duties. Same if the Lt. Gov leaves or dies.

Our Democratic Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll just died from cancer complications. So we have Democrat Ed Rendell as gov and Republican Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati as Lt. Gov (I believe he will do both jobs, as Senate Pro Tem Robert Jubelirer did when Schweiker became gov when Ridge went to Bush admin).

We are a blue state ... but if anything were to happen to Ed Rendell ... eek!

[tabbycat31]

45. new jersey

blue since 1992, and still blue. Senate has 2 dems (we just re-elected an 84 yo) and the governor is a Democrat (who is being considered for Obama's cabinet..... he faces a very difficult re-election next year so I hope he takes the cabinet position so that no Republican is in charge).

Not sure about the house, I couldnt find where to look it up.

[fed_up_mother]

46. Red, but a little less red

[treestar]

47. Delaware

All blue, including state legislature and governor, except the lone representative in DC, who is red but pro-choice and pro-environment, so a somewhat liberal repuke.

Delaware rocks!!!

BTW our senior senator just became VP-elect.

[kevinds13]

48. Missouri

Govorner: Switched from Red to Blue

No Senate Races: 1 Democrat, 1 Republican.
No switches in the House: 4 Democrats, 5 Republicans.

-------------------------------------

President: WHO THE FUCK KNOWS.

:rofl:

[w4rma]

50. Virginia is blue with 2 Democratic Senators and a Democratic governor.

Republican Lt. Governor and Attorney General.
Delegation to the House of Representatives: 6 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
State Senate: 21 Democrats, 19 Republicans.
House of Delegates: 53 Republicans, 44 Democrats, 2 Independents, and 1 vacancy.

[Mudoria]

53. I think I'd call NC purple rather than blue..

2010 could see it turn the other direction very easily.

[firedupdem]

55. I'm in Nebraska

still red as ever but we managed to get Barack one electoral vote out of 5.

woo hoo!

[Montauk6]

56. New York... 'nuff said.

[rollin74]

57. Nevada

red in 2000 & '04

BLUE in '08

Obama won here by 12% :-)

[KharmaTrain]

60. I'm FULL Blue...Totally...

I'm proud to say there's not a single elected repugnican in my area...from State House & Senate, to U.S. Rep to Governor to Two Senators (well, only one as of today...but I don't mind), and now the Executive! Hell, I'll bet even the dog catcher is a Democrat.

Not too bad considering when I first move to Pleasant Valley Sunday 20 years ago, it was almost totally red.

[fadedrose]

61. Michigan blue, nice people, no earthquakes or hurricanes...

lots of trained workers, but, very poor.

Our claim to fame is that McCain pulled out and gave us up as hopeless...

[Top Cat]

63. Atlanta is Broke

[Two Americas]

64. in a world of hurt

Michigan.

[Odin2005]

66. MN is still very blue, but the state independents ("Ventura-ists") take votes away from the Dems

many moderates/centrists that would normally vote Dem often vote for the Independent candidates, Hence Pawlenty and Coleman. :grr:

[Arugula Latte]

67. Oregon -- Ever more blue, blue, blue

Before -- blue
After -- very blue

Senate

Before - Smith (R)
After - Merkley (D) Yeah!
(plus one existing Dem. Sen., Wyden)

House -- Still only one R in the Congressional delegation.

State houses -- Dems. gained

All statewide offices such as SOS -- won by Dems.

Our governor's office hasn't been won by an R since the 80s.

[HughMoran]

68. New Hampshire. 4 years ago - RED, Now? BLUE!

We only have 1 Republican Senator now. Even our state governement has turned blue for the first time in 100 years!

[demo dutch]

69. Florida is in foreclosure but blue

[slackmaster]

73. Dry and windy, with some fires raging out of control

It's a mess here.