akuma587 said:
Are you counting red and blue states simply based on the most recent election? That is an inherently flawed thing to do. Florida, Indiana, and North Carolina are all pretty reliable red states at any time in the past 50 years other than this last election. Same goes for Ohio and Nevada. I also hope you aren't counting Washington D.C. as a separate state. Texas, your star indicator, has actually become much more blue recently. On a local and state level, Democrats have staged a major resurgence against Republicans. And any one indicator doesn't take into account the regional effect of the recession. New Mexico has become a reliably blue state, but it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. Coincidentally, it is in the Southwest where the recession has been the least bad. Both Arizona AND Texas have a higher unemployment rate than New Mexico and both went to McCain by a healthy margin.
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I took the average of the last 4 elections.
But no point in going on about this. I knew when I wrote it, that you would instantly come back with some trend to disprove it.
100 things probably entered your mind as to why those stats seem to be the way they are. None of them were remotely anything close to conservatism might work.
With you it's like religion. If I could come up with proof that god didn't exist, a very religious person would instantly start looking for reasons why I am wrong, and never consider that god actually doesn't exist.
