Option 4: The rural areas and small towns that probably did not vote for Kerry, so it would be a good challenge to get Democrats to win here. The Shenandoah Valley or the Piedmont in Virginia is a good example of a nice place to live.
Sounds allright. I take this option, too.
Also we shouldn't forget that politics is not everything.
I love my town (don't know if it would be called "town" in America, we are about 2000 voters) that goes about 70% CDU (conservatives) as a great place with nice people and a beautiful countryside.
And I would never wan't to live in the ugly, dirty, noisy inner city of Berlin, though Social Democrats, Greens and Socialists get about 80% of the vote there.