What is the liberal spot you mentioned? Blue spots near Perryton are few and far btwn.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=perryton&state=TX&zoom=4
And I thought I was being too obvious by capitalizing Liberal. For the record, Liberal, KS, is the county seat of Seward County, which went better than 3-1 for Bush in 2000 and almost 4-1 for Bush in 2004. I guess it is liberal in the old-fashioned 19th-century sense, being devoted to liberty.
Steve Moore on Fox yesterday was talking about how Ireland has gone from the poorest country in western Europe to the richest, and trotted out the old joke about why Ireland is a good place to invest (because the capital is always Dublin).