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Mondale/McCain and Dole/Obama Counties
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| Contributor | Karma Policeman |
| Last Edited | Karma Policeman Nov 12, 2008 07:50pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, November 13, 2008 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There's already been a lot of analysis of the evolving political trends from 2004 to 2008 (including from me, although still nothing beats that widely-circulated New York Times county-change map) based on preliminary election returns. But with the exception of dreaminonempty's remarkable and must-see map diary over at Open Left, no one has really focused much on what longer-term trends look like, especially at the county-by-county level.
One question I was left with after this election was what areas have changed so much that they used to stick with the Democrats (or Republicans) even in their absolute darkest hour, but now favor Republicans (or Democrats). The darkest hour for Democrats was a pretty easy choice (Walter Mondale); for Republicans, I was initially thinking of Barry Goldwater, but his pre-Civil Rights Act map is just too different from today's map to be useful, so I settled for the GOP's second biggest recent failure, Bob Dole. |
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