"Never judge this state by gubentorial results it has voted for a Republican straight since 1964 LBJ."
I also hear CA used to be a red state. But I agree that the 05 election probably has little to do in terms of the 08 election.
I am concerned about the amount of liberals that are moving in. I can't find a place to go that isn't talking about liberal "values" in NoVa. Of course my age group is stereotypically liberal so that could be the problem ;)
Illinois went NIXON, NIXON, FORD, REAGAN, REAGAN, BUSH and has since gone CLINTON, CLINTON, GORE, KERRY.
And the opposite is true in other places. WEST Virgina was one of the strongest RAT states in the south. Dukakis won union-controlled West Virgina easily while getting his butt kicked nationwide. But in the 2000s, Gore and Kerry got their ass kicked in West Virgina even though they polled really well in the rest of the country.