[SF Republican]

George Bushes fault - I am proud to say

[Republicus2001]

BUSTED! the Red Dye No. 2 Salesmen Conspiracy

[AZ_Cowboy]

It was the boegyman! Didn't they tell you?
/Sarcasm

Obviously, this was to the article author, not the poster. We're all friends here.

[Dan from Michigan]

In my state, one county went from red to blue. Alger County in the UP which is staunchly democrat.

Manistee, Alpena, Monroe, Macomb, Calhoun, Iron, Clare, Ogemaw, Roscommon, and Iosco all switched. Most are rural and socially conservative.

[nmh]

The five reasons they give:

1. A wartime president

Voters were drawn to Bush by memories of the 9/11 attacks and a reluctance to change leaders in the midst of war.

2. Who was tough enough?

Democrats were damaged by the perception that the party and its nominees are weak on national security.

3. Values mattered

Values led some voters to Bush

4. 'The move-in people'

Republicans benefited from demographic shifts.

5. Nuts and bolts

Republicans out-campaigned Democrats.

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Close but no cigar. Kerry is a liar and no sane person has trust in a liar. Gay marriages was also another show stopper - Kerry was for it despite his flip-flops. Kerry was also a very despicable character. The ultimate fact is the people spoke and they simply didn't want Kerry as President.

[longtermmemmory]

Easy, the media decided that from now on blue would not mean challenger, blue means Democrat for the MSM.

Seriously, the sleeping gian awoke.

[petercooper]

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[PeterFinn]

Because a few years ago the MSM decided that Democrats would be Blue and Republicans would now be red.

In 1988 the GOP states were BLUE.

http://www.presidentelect.org/e1988.html

[Alia]

Jill Lawrence and company are merely looking at the same nuts and bolts - almost as if Nancy Pelosi had written the "talking points". They miss the point of the red states and President Bush's election -- near entirely, IMHO.

[buffyt]

When I moved to Lake Jackson Texas in 1973 I could not find another Republican. I kept my mouth shut about politics. Now it is RARE to find a Democrat around here......

[BenLurkin]

The blue tumors are getting smaller and denser:

[wildcatf4f3]

I'm in Boone co and the city of Columbia proper thinks it Haight Ashbury circa '68. Its or rather they're really pathetic, teens whose parents are burnt out hippydippy types with thier grateful dead skateboards and tiedye T shirts, inscence shops (THE NEW ECONOMY), enough leftwing tenured never got their hands dirty professor types to confuse the minds of whole generations of youth, That Bush won here is like Sharon winning in Tehran.

[Budge]

IMHO the media finally awakened to --- RED was associated with [gasp!] communism (USSR)!

What better way to portray Republicans?

At least in their little twisted, socialist minds.

[x]

Good article.

[Major_Risktaker]

Well, I Say Family Values!

[hinckley buzzard]

The most interesting thing about this article is that it is being printed in a national newspaper three months after the election, and after a thousand basically identical articles have been published and broadcast all over the country.

What does this mean, coming on the eve of the SOTU speech?