America is turning Blue!!! Map re Senate races/trends

[Nimrod2005]

Grey means there is no race in that state.

It is looking more and more blue'ish to me...














http://www.electoral-vote.com

[soothsayer]

1. That's because we're holding our breath until * is out of the WH

[Nimrod2005]

2. lol......nt

[AX10]

3. Ted Kennedy polling at 73%!

Virginia looks good too.

[MADem]

4. AGGGGGGH!!!! ONLY 73%%%??????

My goodness, I may have to do some door knocking!!! (Heh, heh)....

We love our Ted up this way....

[defendusa2]

20. Re: AGGGGGGH!!!! ONLY 73%%%??????

Your door knocking would be better in NH where some GOPs are expected to win. Kennedy always has 40 percent of the population voting against him. For him to get 73 percent of the vote is pretty good.

[MADem]

21. Well......I was only keeeeeeeeeeeeeding!!

I'll drive a boatload of Teddy voters to the polls, though, to be sure they get there.....

[MoonRiver]

7. Isn't Webb ahead now?

Thought I read that somewhere.

[Contrary1]

5. I think we can get out our colored pencils

and start shading in Virginia. Keep up the good work, Sen. Macacca!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. My only question... HOW THE FUCK ARE NJ AND VA STILL RED?

Seriously, what is the major malfunction there?!?

[mcscajun]

11. Virginia I understand, a bit. So much military/government infrastructure

down there, it's practically a "company state". I visit friends down there quite a bit, and see very few signs of Democratic activity. Although, this past month, I did see two kids holding up signs at a strip mall; one said, "Impeach Bush", so there is hope everywhere.

NJ, where I live, is a patchwork quilt, with a lot of big money counties leaning primarily Republican, and the cities leaning Democratic. I attribute our reddish tint, in part, to Republican New Yorkers moving to the "safe, white suburbs" of NJ and snuggling into the "I've got mine, the hell with you" mindset. I know, two of my sisters did just that elsewhere in the state. The counties close to NYC are more Democratic, though, with a lot of residents still tied by their professions or occupations to NYC.

Here in Morris County, our Democratic Party organization has just been getting off the ground and becoming a force in the last couple of years, but it's an uphill battle. Even the little town I live in, primary working-class homeowners who've lived here for generations, somehow is Repbublican; it makes no sense to me!

Yet, with all of that, we have a Democratic governor and two Democratic US Senators. Thank goodness!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

14. I can understand Virginia too.

I'm from the area (Maryland) and have spent a lot of time in the nether regions. I would seriously hope, however, that such a racist would not be re-elected, even despite Virginia's leanings.

Thanks for the info on New Jersey. I've been struggling to understand the shift there.

[Warpy]

15. Plus wingnut religious fascist infrastructure

in the southern part of the state, Falwell and Robertson have their fiefdoms, er, colleges and media empires down there.

Allen may yet squeak by with the fundy/military/spook vote.

I keep posting that you can't count the bigot out. Virginia is that weird a state.

[MADem]

23. James Webb has a LOT of MILITARY cred

Don't forget, he was a Marine (Navy Cross, 2 Purple Hearts), he was SECNAV, AND he was an Asst SECDEF (for Reserve Affairs). This guy KNOWS his way around the military block, and has many more real friends (as opposed to 'work' friends) in the defense infrastructure than Macaca does.

I challenge MACACA to counter an image like this:





This sort of shit just doesn't cut it:

[Nimrod2005]

25. Webb has to win this one...For all of us!!!

[Arugula Latte]

26. One word popped into my head with that football-throwing pic:

Doofus.

[BlueStateBlue]

22. I also live in NJ, and I think a lot of people who espouse the

"show and tell" way of life think that being a Republican gives them the appearance of wealth, and helps them keep up with the Joneses. Sickening.

I would so much rather be surrounded by misguided rural Republicans, who honestly believe they're doing the right thing because they think the current administration is guided by God.

[bdamomma]

8. are people really waking up???? to this sick regime who

stole our country. No matter what we all have to get out there in November and vote these slimeballs out. And if these thugs steal this vote again, we are being played for fools and must retailiate.

[Auntie Bush]

9. That's a beautiful map! I can't believe Maine, IN, IL, and AR

are still red or redish.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

13. IL and AR don't have races this year.

That's not reddish - that grey for "no information".

[Auntie Bush]

18. Sorry, I meant Arizona, not AR

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

19. Peterson has been closing in on Kyl.

I don't think he'll get there, but it's going to be close, and it's a positive step for us in that state.

[Hoosier Dem]

16. Indiana is no surprise....

For a couple of reasons:

1. Dick Lugar is VERY popular here. He's a fairly moderate Republican who is popular with all sections here. Since Lugar is 75 (?), this will proably be his "Farewell Tour". In fact, the Dems decided not to waste money by running a Senate candidate and put money into House races intead. It's a good strategy, since it looks like we're going to knock off THREE GOP Congressman!! I can live with Lugar if we get rid of Chocola, Hostetler, and Sodrel.

2. By nature, Indiana is a Republican state. The conservative samll towns and wealthy Indianapolis suburbs vote so heavily Republican that the Democratic cities of South Bend, Gary, and inner city Indianapolis just can't offset that edge. In fact, Indiana is so dependably republican that we're almost always the first state to light up red on the night of a presidential election.

[MADem]

24. Maine has Snowe and Collins--if you ripped them from their roots

and transplanted them to, say, Texas, they'd be viewed as Democrats.

[4bucksagallon]

10. I see my state is red even though we vote democratic for pres.

It must be that our two "moderate" senators eh um are republicans, Collins and Snowe. We just can't seem to get rid of them no matter what. Oh well, our congressmen are dems and do a hell of a job most of the time, Allen and Michaud. Snowe should be reminded she signed on to term limits back when the repukes issued the "contract on america".

[YOY]

12. AZ: Snowbirds, Fundies, and McCaine supporters throw it off

Of them all I can only say the McCaine supporters make sense in their voting paterns. He has worked for Arizona (although not in a way I would have liked) and is one of the true non-chicken hawk pubs...

[Javaman]

17. diebol is still red. :( nt