Aaagghh!!! What the hell!!!!

[jeregenest]

Okay, so 22% of the counties in the US went more Republican, that on the surface seems good, means we're not getting more conservative, maybe, I haven't the faintest clue because I'm not sure how many went more "liberal"

But the fact Massachsuetts is there? That scares me. A lot.

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[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

How do you think I feel? I mean, look at that Racism Belt.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Well, it'd help to know the baseline, and to remember that the last election had a Massachusetts native son running for president. I suspect that accounts for a lot of it.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Well, speaking as someone from Worcester County: I think it's just the reactionary backwoods libertarianism. Many of my family and friends back home bought into the "Obama's a socialist/muslim/epithet du jour" BS... but once they see he's not confiscating their guns and sending their kids to sodomy training academies, they'll calm down and come back into the fold as it were.

My 2¢.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect that's merely MA reverting a little from the Kerry numbers because he was from here. It's the mildest color category, same as the mild bump Arizona got from being McCainland while Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado went blue.

Really, what we're talking here is Appalachia and the Florida panhandle, Arkasas, extremely poor and poorly educated white areas, and that was, let's face it, race.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_meej_/]

Here's the original source for that graphic:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/05/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_RECAP.html

[truthspeaker.livejournal.com]

Exactly what others have said. This is *relative* to 2004, when Kerry ran.

It's like when the stock market goes up 100 points and then down 40 the next day. It's just correcting for being unusually high the day before, but it's still up 60 points.