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uti2
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« on: February 23, 2017, 06:06:12 PM »

Not Al Gore, it was Monica Lewinsky. Republicans were cynically appealing to the religious right before, but the Lewinsky event allowed them to kick the religion-baiting into hyperdrive, that's really when democrats lost the south. Clinton might've been able to win it back in '08 in light of the economic collapse, but Obama pretty much killed off any chances of that happening.
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2017, 11:02:50 PM »
Quote from: Lothal1 on February 23, 2017, 10:40:05 PM
The beginning of the shift began because of Mr Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore would have won the presidency had he won West Virginia.

No, it was because of Lewinsky, no Lewinsky = No GWB religious pandering, the south stays with Dems longer. Gore would've won at least TN, in addition to WV and FL easily. Hillary was also polling quite well in AR in 2008, she might've won it and WV, in light of the economic collapse.
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