4 Responses to Two Americas?

1. marksb November 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am «

   Moderate Republicans find they must veer to the mindless evangelical right, or face abuse–even banishment–from their own party. Who would stay under those conditions?

   As far as coverage, it doesn’t fit the simple-minded agenda of Right vs. Left, and it certainly is a subject that would ask thorny questions about the nature of what the Republican party has become. No producer with an eye on ratings and advertising rates wants to go there. Keep it simple and unchallenging beyond the superficial, and keep it under two or three minutes to cut to the next commercial…
2. perris November 7th, 2008 at 10:36 am «

   Of course the David Borders will tell Republicans they will continue losing unless they are able to culturally identify with the North East.

   here’s how the republicans can ‘culturally identify” with me;

   get me my money back, the money you stole when you changed the tax code under both Reagan and bush

   give me my tax reduction by rescinding the entire Reagan tax code

   get all the companies that left back producing on these shores

   renew the strength of our unions

   take person hood away from corporations

   insist corporations pay their own bills and stop getting me to give them welfare

   cut the amount of lobbyists exponentially

   hold to account anyone who stole our information or committed war crimes

   there are a few more but those top the list
3. cinnamonape November 7th, 2008 at 5:32 pm «

   Ari~ I like this map better. It actually shows the direction of shift from Republican (McCain)Democrat (Obama) from the previous election.

   http://elections.nytimes.com/2…..t/map.html

   The “growth” of the Republican “brand” was essentially restricted to “Appalachia” and Louisiana (perhaps Katrina population movements and Jindalization).

   You can also click back over the last few years to the Clinton campaigns and see just how red the regions were back then.
4. cinnamonape November 7th, 2008 at 5:36 pm «

   Apparently, you have to go over and click on the “voting shifts”…it’ll switch back to the probit function. You can change it to look at counties, precincts, and even by years.

   It’s the shift…not the case of which party actually won the precinct (often by a few hundred votes or 5-10%) that interests me. Who is getting “redder” indicates where the Republicans are making their case and expanding their base. The blue areas are where Obama and the Democrats actually made a more convincing case beyond 2004 (of course, the economy and war had a lot to do with this as well