[SoftwareEngineer]

EDIT:
Replace: So, what happened in the North East? Why did a bunch of states that had historically voted Republican since the Civil War turn Republican?

With: So, what happened in the North East? Why did a bunch of states that had historically voted Republican since the Civil War turn Democratic ?

[GOPsterinMA]

Good stuff! One point I’d like to make: as I have posted several times - if Mitt Romney was running as the fomer governor of, say Michigan or Utah, he would have fared much, much better.