California voted simularly to Illinois this year, with Hussein getting about 60% of the vote and winning some areas that are normally considered reliably Republican. Of course Illinois had a valid excuse with Hussein being our incumbant Senator, and his vote totals against McCain being far weaker than he was against Keyes (when Hussein carried something like 92 out of the state's 102 counties, vs. getting about half the state's counties against McCain).
I wonder what happened to all freepers who gloated how RINOld would "deliever" the state once they had a "popular Republican governor" in office. They don't seem to post much anymore. ;-)
Interesting to me is your home state of Tennessee is one of the few states to go the OPPOSITE direction of where it was in 2004. Hussein actually did much WORSE in the state than Kerry did, which is surprising since Obama's southern clone Harold Ford was the media's "rising star" for a while and considered their best chance of a RAT pickup. Hussein only won about six counties in TN, and about 41% (reverse totals of California). I wonder why flip-flopping Dukakis clone Kerry did better than the smooth talking marxist?
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I wonder if Hillary’s defeat angered some of the state’s Democrats, who decided to vote against Obama. Of the five states that swung more GOP from four years ago (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia) she carried four of them in the Democratic primary. Of course, these are also very culturally conservative states who don’t have huge epicenters of liberalism, except maybe New Orleans, Memphis, and Nashville.