All this brings me back to my grade school year, in '84.
Our school overwhelming voted for Reagan.
I hope this is an idicator of the same trend for the President.
I remember my grade school election in '80. It was Reagan over Carter by about 100 votes. I remember a girl antagonizing me for voting Reagan. She said Carter would beat him in the real election. This girl always reminded me of Nellie Olsen on Little HOuse on the Prarie... real bratty. It was so great going to school on that next Wed. and stick my tongue out at her!!! Because not only did he win, that was the first time that Alabama voted Republican. This was always a yellow dog dem. state up until that point. It has been a Republican state nationally ever since then. NOw if we can only change the state wide elections to reflect that we would be doing great!