GOP has lock on South and Democrats Can't Find Key

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What kind of political party just writes off 166 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House?

Answer:  a really stupid one.

The Dems don't write off the South any moreso than the GOP writes off the Northeast.

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Actually, there was an improvement in NC which was slightly more substantial, if you account for national averages. However, the result there was disappointing, to say the least. I did expect Edwards to do more than that, but I guess I was wrong.

If accounted for Nader (Nader wasn't on the ballot in N.C. in 2000), N.C. had the 3rd greatest pro-Kerry/Nader swing in 2004.

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In Southern counties without a substantial number of African American or Latino voters, Bush virtually obliterated Kerry. Across the 11 states of the old Confederacy, plus Kentucky and Oklahoma, whites constitute a majority of the population in 1,154 counties. Kerry won 90 of them.

By contrast, Bill Clinton won 510 white-majority counties in the South eight years ago.

Anyone know if H. Clinton or Biden improved on Kerry's 90, or not?