All in all, which state (or district) were you the most surprised Obama won?

[Bicoastal]

Poll question: All in all, which state (or district) were you the most surprised Obama won?

BTW, did anyone know that VERMONT of all places used to be the most Republican state in the country? In the 217 years of its existence, the state has voted for a Democratic President in exactly SIX elections: LBJ in 1964, Clinton in 1992, and every election since then.

[democrattotheend]

1. I predicted Indiana could be competitive in March of 2007

But I did not think a Democrat would actually win it.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. I'm surprised Florida wasn't stolen again

Though I'm sure they tried.

[Zynx]

5. Theft can only really happen at the margins.

I have yet to see many cases of macro theft in this country. No, I do not believe 2004 was stolen.

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. there was so much more McCain stuff around here I was really suprised about Fl. /nt

[Zynx]

4. Indiana. That's as Republican as it gets outside of the crazy parts of the West.

Not anymore though. My entire conception of the American political map was altered by these results this time.

[camera obscura]

6. A tie between IN, NC & NE's district

I didn't see any of those as true battlegrounds until a few days before the election, and even then I couldn't believe we would actually win them.

[ShadowLiberal]

7. I thought for sure that Obama would fall a few points short in Indiana

A 20%+ gap he would need to make up for that Kerry had in order to win the state seemed undoable, even if Obama was a next door senator and some of the state shared a media market with Illinois.