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Return of the Red & Blue State Paradigm
2008-03-10 03:25:00 The election patterns of the 2000s — the country dividing into red and blue states — could continue this election season, suggests Andrew Sullivan in the The Clintons, a horror film that never ends. All of the talk about the new “purple” electorate that has become less focused on political differences could just be wishful thinking if Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, predicts Sullivan. When you look at the electoral map if the Clintons run again, you also see a reversion to the old patterns of the 1990s – the patterns that cynical political strategists such as Karl Rove and Dick Morris have been exploiting for two decades. The country – scrambled by the post-baby-boomer pragmatism of Obama – snaps back into classic red-blue mode, with the blue areas denoting Democratic-leaning states around the edge and true red Republican states in the heartlands. The Clintons are comfortable with this polarisation. They need it. Even when running again...
Red State + Blue State = Purple State
2007-12-30 03:59:00 THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATERIt looks like South Carolina is FINALLY going to get an additional Congressional district. It took ...
The Blue State Special: Stuffed Turkey
2007-10-17 13:50:00 Turkey is talking about beginning its own invasion into Iraq to root out rebels who seek an independent nation for Kurds and also of severing ties with the U.S. Military.The severance warnings come in response to the intent of the Democratic led U.S. Congress to officially declare that Turkey committed genocide over 90 years ago during World War I.The support of Turkey has been vital in both U.S. led Iraq wars. Currently about 70% of cargo supplies and 1/3 of the fuel used by U.S. troops go through Turkey into Iraq. Turkey also grants the U.S. use of its airspace and military bases inside its country.Upon taking the majority of The U.S. House, Democratic members threated to cut off funding for the U.S. troops in Iraq. However they were more concerned that the acquirement of blood stains might hurt their chances for reelection. Hence, they not only backed down on the cutting of funds but also passed measures to provide additional funding.Is there any doubt that this a new attempt ...
You don't have to hate other groups to love your own
2007-08-19 22:31:00 SAN FRANCISCO ? Shiite vs. Sunni. Red state vs. Blue state. Immigrant vs. native. While it may appear that conflict is an inevitable part of interaction between groups, research actually suggests that fighting, hating and contempt between groups is not a necessary part of human nature, according to an Ohio State University professor of psychology.?There's still this belief that a group's cohesion depends on conflict with other groups,but the evidence doesn't support that,? said Marilynn Brewer of Ohio State.?Despite evidence to the contrary, you still see this theory in the research literature and in many textbooks.?Brewer has spent much of her career studying ?ingroups? ? the groups we belong to ? and their relations with ?outgroups? ? those groups to which others belong.She discussed the nature of these intergroup relations in her invited address Saturday Aug. 18 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. The address was in honor of Brewer...
Blue States = MiserableRed States = Satisfied & Improving
2007-08-15 19:39:00 I’m not sure the results of this survey come as any big surprise to any American with a brain and clear vision (corrected or not). (h/t - Drudge Report) Happy Days Are Here Again - NY Post A surprising 94 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives - although far fewer in New York ...
By: GayPatriot
North Carolina; The Red And Blue State
2007-07-31 01:25:00 Who will carry North Carolina in 2008?Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, maybe both if what the state legislature is proposing comes true.North Carolina looks to become the third state, after Maine and Nebraska, to award their electoral votes by who carries each congressional district. Each state's number of electoral votes is equal to the state's number of members of Congress; each state has two electoral votes for the two Senators and at least one for each member of the House of Representatives.The plan, much like the case of Maine and Nebraska, two electoral votes are given to the candidate who carries the state. These two electoral votes represent the two Senators and then the remaining electoral votes, representing the Congressmen, are allotted by who wins each Congressional District. In the cases of Maine and Nebraska, the candidate who has won the state ended up carrying each district (Maine has two, Nebraska three) so we've never actually seen that happen.North Carolina has ...
By: Nicks Notes
BLUE STATES - "The soundings"
2007-07-13 08:55:00 Memphis Industries - 2004Blue States son elegancia infinita y atmósferas impecables. Y se han reinventado de nuevo en su tercer largo."The soundings" se abre con "Across the wire": con sólo escuchar la primera nota sientes que puede que estés ante un disco que te haga cambiar, o quizás pensar. Pero pensar en fotogramas. Pues "The soundings" es en realidad una película contada en diez canciones. Un film etéreo y vaporoso...Articulo completo: Miriam Zorraquino Martínez para Popchild.
Anna Paquin, Breckin Meyer Talk 'Blue State,' Why 'Garfield' Saga Isn't Ove
2007-05-02 12:02:00 Actress/producer Anna Paquin and her co-star Breckin Meyer discuss Marshall Lewy's "Blue State," which premiered at the sixth Tribeca Film Festival.
New Blue States?
2007-03-11 16:03:00 States long out of range for the Democrats, may turn blue in 2008.It's usually the case after a two-term president's replacement is elected. States he won the previous election suddenly are in play.In 1964, Lyndon Johnson swept the entire country minus the Deep South and Arizona, but Nixon won a large amount of Johnson states in 1968, some (like Utah, North Dakota and Nebraska,) by huge marginsNixon swept 49 states in 1972, but his party's nominee lost in 1976, with Democrat Jimmy Carter sweeping the South, a region swept by Nixon. Like Nixon, Reagan swept 49 states in 1984, and even though Dukakis did not lose a close race four years later, eight states Reagan carried went to Dukakis, and many more were close.Of the states Bill Clinton won in his reelection in 1996, Bush carried 11 of them in 2000 and 13 of them in 2004. It should be no surprise more Red States in 2004 will be in play than Blue States.Take Colorado, a state where John Kerry received a rather surprising 47% in 20...
By: Nicks Notes
Red State-Blue State: What do you think about making Chuck Norris OUR WMD?
2007-02-14 01:06:04 This is an interesting question because when I was younger I always thought singing cowboy Rex O'Herlihan was a sure bet to defeat communism. While attending Fargo-Moorhead University I even petitioned the state department to fire off handsome actor Henry Silva into Nam for some rice-eater Butt-Kicking! So of course I would support the Chuck Norris WMD.
By: The Lost News
48% of Blue State Democrats Support Bush ?Love Child?
2006-08-11 18:57:11 That headline, certainly inspired by Instapundit’s linking what he called the “Best. Lamont. Spin. Ever:” “the pro-Bush candidate just got 48% in a Democrat primary.“ Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, tried to spin Ned’s Lamont victory in the Nutmeg State’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate as a defeat for the president, saying “this shows what blind loyalty to George Bush and being his love child means.” Emmanuel, ever eager to bash Bush, seems to have forgotten that he was commenting on the Democratic primary in Connecticut, a state which has strict registration rules and lacks open primaries like other states. So, if, as Rahm spins it, Lieberman is a blind follower of this Republican president, he did pretty darn well, considering Republicans couldn’t vote in the Connecticut contest he so narrowly lost.
By: GayPatriot
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