GOP Failure Watch Part II

True...so full marks to the McCain campaign for nailing down the AK vote!

 

The Reservations

 

You really don't have that good of a grasp how food and materials are transported in this country, do you?

It's beliefs like this as to why the Dems were in the wilderness

 

My pops and mom for sure, I am an Anchor baby.

 

1) McDonnell would have to jump up pretty high to step on his dick. Sadly, caving a tiny bit and easing back the crazy a tad on that law is the part that'll get him in trouble with that side of the ticket.
b) I still don't think Virginia is much of a swing state. It might be over there where you live Where I am, I don't see much but a big red swath. The two precincts out my way where it was purple in '08 (blue for Obama), they've redistricted to put all the possible Dems into a previous Dem controlled area anyway, leaving the other two back to solid red - which does mean I get to finally stop voting in a Presbyterian Church - but now I have to go vote in a Lutheran Church 3 times further away from my house. Grrrrr.

 

Definitive proof has arrived that Americans are the stupidest people in the G20 -

 

Geez. Where to put this? The Rush thread? The Breitbart thread, public deception subthread? Whack jobs? Maybe even the Obama fail thread?:

Obama a Muslim According to Polling in the South

The incorrect belief that President Obama is Muslim is alive and well among some southern Republican voters, according to a new poll.

According to the latest PPP survey, a full majority — 52 percent — of Mississippi Republicans polled say that Obama is a Muslim, with only 12 percent of voters correctly identifying him as a Christian. Another 36 percent surveyed report that they are unsure about the president's faith.

In Alabama, PPP finds that 45 percent of GOP voters report that Obama is a Muslim, with 41 percent uncertain. Only 14 percent correctly identify Obama as a Christian.

"We’d never polled that anywhere else so I didn’t really know what to expect," PPP director Tom Jensen said in an email. "But I’m not terribly surprised by the numbers, especially in the context of the level of birtherism we found still existing in Georgia, Ohio, and Tennessee last week. I think those issues are closely related. With both the religion thing and the birther thing I’m not totally sure all these voters really think that Obama is a Muslim or that he was born in Kenya or Indonesia or wherever—I think it may be more a function of people who hate Obama expressing that negativity in any way they can to the point of making these odd claims about his personal identity."​

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A Bit More Colorful at the NY Daily News

Mississippi and Alabama are also deeply religious states that generally rank at or close to the bottom in most state education rankings.

Sixty-six percent of Mississippians surveyed by PPP said they didn’t believe in evolution as did 60% of people in Alabama, the pollsters found.

And in these states, Rush Limbaugh is an admired figure, with 53% of those polled admitting to having a favorable opinion of the right wing rabblerouser. The figure was 51% in Mississippi.

The survey was done over the weekend as Limbaugh continued to be hit by criticism for calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” on the air.​

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There also isn't much about New Mexico which suggests we are even slightly influenced by Arizona. Texas is the conservative state which influences New Mexico politics, and that influence is pretty much limited to the Southeastern quarter of the state.

And the Colorado-Arizona border is a point not a line. I don't see Colorado as much influenced by any other state, but perhaps a Coloradan could express an opinion...

 

I didn't mean to imply that it would influence their politics, but rather that if Utah, Idaho, and Arizona seceded to the Conservative States of America that New Mexico and Colorado would have to also because they'd be surrounded otherwise. Call it the North Carolina exception. North Carolina wasn't particularly excited about seceding from the Union, but because all of the states around them seceded, they had to as well.

 

Way to fight those redneck stereotypes, guys...

 

Yahoo is currently reporting this story under the headline:

"Only 12 percent of Miss. voters think Obama is Christian."

even though the poll was of Mississippi Republicans, not voters.

 

Thanks to the Electoral College, their votes for President don't count. The system works.

 

Thanks to the electoral college, neither does yours.

 

It's okay, the stupids are concentrated in less populous states. The one benefit of EC has been the neutralizing effect on extremist positions.

 

Fixed.

 

Fixed your fix.

 

True, thanks.

 

Colorado's party affiliation depends on geography. There are a couple congressional districts in suburban Denver that are 50-50 though, IIRC.

 

Denver = blue, Denver suburbs = purple, the rest of the state = red?

 

It's actually quite complicated. Colorado is a very odd bird politically.

Blue: Denver, Boulder (UC), Pueblo (CSU), Fort Collins (CSU), and the ski towns

Red: Plains (basically an extension of Kansas), Colorado Springs (Air Force), rural /ranch country (particularly the far west)

 

Alright that is complicated. It's simpler in Illinois -- they love Kenyan Muslims in Chicago, like them alright in the burbs, and make the sign of the cross downstate.

 

I suppose it looks like an earthquake map or topographical map with Chicago as the blue center and the waves get more red as they get wider.

 

I was actually referring to the popular vote. Gore won that, correct? So with no EC, no Dubya?