Chart Of The Day From Mother Jones: Republican Party Just Flat Dead Everywhere Outside South

[Hissyspit]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/09/chart-day-0

Courtesy of Mother Jones

Chart of the Day
By Kevin Drum
Friday, September 18, 2009 3:00:01 PM

This isn't any big surprise or anything, but it's still sort of breathtaking when you see it in such stark terms. Via Steve Benen (from a Research 2000 poll), the Republican Party is just flat dead everywhere outside the South. Even folks in the Midwest can't stand them. The GOP is, for the time being anyway, a purely regional party.

And who's responsible for that? "I know this probably sounds arrogant to say," George Bush told speechwriter Matt Latimer in a conversation last year, "but I redefined the Republican Party." I'd say he had a point.

[get the red out]

1. Democrats just need to capitalize

Democrats need to make sure that they are seen in a favorable light.

[liberal N proud]

2. And it is only modestly favorable in the South

[Frustratedlady]

3. The red is the response to the megaphones...

The people getting all the attention are those with the "megaphones" -- the loudest and brassiest voices/attitudes. Maybe it's a good thing that the Dems are sitting back and letting them yell their heads off. Each day, they are looking more and more like spoiled brats and the Dems are the adults in the room.

Glad to see that chart.

[salin]

4. and today the megaphones sound like "mega-bores"

insane ones at that.

[seafan]

5. Somebody said that this was, uhm...the one-fingered salute to what remains of the Republican Party

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The South just needs a little bit more time.

Ah'm doin' mah part, though. :)

[Overseas]

6. That's why I get angry at GOP leaders getting so much TV time.

I know that is merely more proof that our major broadcast media have been conglomerated into right wing hands, but it still bothers me.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Time for a Norquistian GOP drowning in the bathtub. nt

[Kablooie]

8. Gimme that old rebel yell!

[ljm2002]

9. You know what's great about that chart?

The Northeast, the Midwest and the West appear to be giving a hearty "F*** You" the the Republican Party!

heh

[GodDamLiberal]

10. So What

Doesn't mean that a large number of people won't vote with them.
Like a lot of people on that left that vote dem even when they think the party
really, really, sucks but feel they have no other choice.

[samsingh]

11. we should be able to take advantage of this

[WeDidIt]

12. Does it look to anybody else that the Northeast, Midwest, and West

are flipping the GOP off?

[Hissyspit]

13. .

[Laelth]

14. As long as we don't pass the "individual mandate" we'll be fine.

Several states will likely enact single-payer around 2011. There's no need to pass a very bad bail-out of the health insurance industry right now. There's absolutely no reason to hang the individual mandate around the neck of the Democratic Party.

:dem:

-Laelth

[TexasObserver]

15. Recommend

[Turborama]

16. K&R for a great find

However, there'll still be some wingnuts who's cognitive dissonance will make them say "so what?", as they do with any facts that bounce off their Faux news created fantasy bubble.

[Hissyspit]

17. I like kicking this. nt

[berni_mccoy]

18. Gallup MUST Sample Just The South to get the numbers they do.

[pleah]

19. K& R

[ooglymoogly]

20. Isn't it odd how a democratic congress cannot find a way

to make use of this overwhelming fact and tries its best to pretend it does not exist?

[ooglymoogly]

21. And a second KR

[moondust]

22. And what will the GOP do about it?

March even deeper into wackoland.

A smarter party would have read the tea leaves and moderated after the election but the GOP chose to follow Limpbag, Beck, Hannity, and the other wackos at Fox over the cliff. Good riddance!