Right only Larimer (Colorado Springs). You wouldn’t think the increase would be enough, 58% for Bush 2004 in district. It could be an error, I think these maps are imperfect they came out some soon after the election. Then again Obama did win according to this source and Dave Leip, Randy Forbes district in VA (57 Bush) thanks to increased black turnout and WI-6 (56 for Bush). I didn’t believe either till Leip said the same thing. This source also has Roscoe Barlett’s Maryland seat going for Obama. I think that can’t be true. 65% for Bush. Must be a mistake.
I can’t wait for the complete numbers to be available on cq politics.com
I was surprised the 3rd went McCain. John Salazar needs to make a primary challenge to what’shisface, we’ll see if Ken is still praising him in that instance.
Larimer is up on the WY border, that's Fort Collins (which has had 2 GOP Mayors in a row, including a Hispanic Conservative, Ray Martinez). El Paso County is Colorado Springs. It's disturbing enough that red rot is spreading northward out of Denver/Boulder as it is.
"You wouldn’t think the increase would be enough, 58% for Bush 2004 in district. It could be an error, I think these maps are imperfect they came out some soon after the election."
It's clearly an error, since Larimer doesn't have enough people, nor margin, to override the rest of the district.
"Then again Obama did win according to this source and Dave Leip"
I'm looking at Leip, too (which unfortunately does not have a breakdown for the individual Congressional districts in CO), and he doesn't show that McCain lost the 4th. It looks like McCain did lose the 3rd, since several counties within it (especially the old Hispanic counties, and Pueblo, went against him). But I don't know the total numbers.
"Randy Forbes district in VA (57 Bush) thanks to increased black turnout and WI-6 (56 for Bush)."
Yeah, those are clearly shown, since Leip has the Cong. district maps for those two states. I hadn't realized that McCain carried only a paltry 13 (!) counties in WI, and only won Sensenbrenner's district. That's a disaster. I don't think Pawlenty or Tommy Thompson would've changed that. I still don't understand what kind of an appeal the False Messiah had in wide swaths of rural WI. It seemed the counties nearest the Chicago media market (suburban Milwaukee) were the most put off by him, although not one single county in the state trended GOP from 2004. All the more remarkable down here in TN where we literally and viscerally repulsed by the False one to the point of Nixon-McGovern proportions. Some liberal rodent asked, "What's wrong with TN being so out of step with the country ?" I think the better question is, "What the hell happened to the rest of the country while TN remained a bastion of sanity and clear-headedness ?"
"This source also has Roscoe Barlett’s Maryland seat going for Obama. I think that can’t be true. 65% for Bush. Must be a mistake."
Clearly. Bartlett's district is hyper-Republican, simply because the Dem legislators moved as many Republicans into it (6th) and the 1st as possible (Kratovil I believe is toast in '10, he didn't even win by 1%). Only Baltimore County within Bartlett's district went for the False one, and ostensibly the section he has in the county is probably the most Republican, designed to keep the surrounding Cong districts Dem. Leip doesn't have a map for MD's districts, either.