November 3, 2008
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Nothing Is Set in Stone
NOTE: This post is both on my Xanga site and the smaller blog I've started up on my Kizyr for Obama page.
In 1936, Democrat FDR took every state except for Vermont and Maine.
In 1972, Republican Nixon took every state except for Massachusetts and Washington DC.
In 1976, Democrat Jimmy Carter swept the entire South (except Virginia), while Republican Gerald Ford won the West Coast.
In 1992 and 1996, Democrat Bill Clinton took half the southern states.There's a simple point I'm trying to make here. It's very easy when trying to predict the outcome of an election to assume one state will go one way, and another state will go another. It's easy to assume that, say, Utah, Texas, and the entire Southeast are eternally Republican, and the West Coast and Northeast are eternally Democratic, that cities are always Democratic and small towns are always Republican.
Things aren't set in stone. And the fact that, now, Barack Obama is winning over many supporters across the entire country, that the Republicans are scrambling in places like North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, and Missouri, should tell us something.
And the fact that things can always change should motivate you to vote, even if you're in a so-called "Solid Blue" or "Solid Red" state. KF
