The Democrats have offset the loss of the South with the megastates of NY, CA, IL and PA. Demographics ensure Democrats will win them outright for a generation. They are not swing states in presidential elections. No GOP presidential candidate visits them because they have zero chance of ever carrying them.
You are correct. And CA, IL, Ny have the worst budget problems. CA has horrible jobs & housing situation with the other three well below national averages. But the 47% could’nt care less so long as they keep getting free money in the mail.
Those are the states that are going to be hit the hardest when the RATs cause the big SHTF die off.
I think GOP presidential candidates need to visit states like that for at least one solid stop to show the faithful and independents that the candidate is willing to step into the lion's den and show voters that they are not forgotten or considered a hopeless cause.
When the gutless McCain wouldn't even let Palin make stops in Michigan because that state was supposedly lost, it told me that he had no fight in him at all and the race had become a mere formality before the coronation of TOTUS.
Well Romney has been to California a few times not as many as Obama but he has been here.
Yeah, but many of these, including NY, are losing pop and thus electors.