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Democrats must come to see that the reason the 2000 election map looked the way it did is because Americans are tired of having their liberty -- to speak freely, to obtain, own, and carry the means of self-defense, to keep every penny they earn, to drive the size and kind of car they want -- taken away bit by bit. They can read the Bill of Rights themselves. They understand what the Founding Fathers meant by it. They're less and less willing to be told otherwise by thugs in jackboots or lawyers wearing suits that cost more than the cars they love.

Ok, which election is he talking about and why didn't anybody tell me? The one I voted in resulted in a pretty even split between dems and repubs, with statistical noise for the Libertarians. How are the author's conclusions supported by this pattern?

Remember the red and blue areas??

I travel a LOT in the rural areas of this country....and I talk to a lot of citizens who feel just the way that paragraph sounded.

redrock

Ok, which election is he talking about and why didn't anybody tell me? The one I voted in resulted in a pretty even split between dems and repubs, with statistical noise for the Libertarians. How are the author's conclusions supported by this pattern?

The only difference between dems and reps is that dems want to turn up the heat more than the reps do. Both have the same goal - boiling us frogs. It isn't a dem Att Gen and CONgress cranking out laws that control us but won't stop a repeat of Sept 11. Or a dem president making these executive orders.