11-07-2008, 02:50 AM | #1 |
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red/blue shift
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What's up with Arkansas and Tennessee? Palin? Hard to imagine why a state would shift that much to the Republican side after the past four years. I don't think it's racism. How else do you explain the other southern states that shifted blue?
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You're right.
I just didn't want to believe it. Is there another explanation than the one you identified? Only other I could think of was Palin appealing to the evangelicals in those states, but that can't account for the lurch to the right in those states.
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It's impossible to know, though, because in exit polling nobody's going to admit something like that. |
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Fascinating. That shift in the South in incredible. +20 pts? Wow.
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Along with Phoenix, AZ, and Boston, MA?
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Zing!
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dang double post.
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