Sanest and craziest state GOPs

[slothdem]

In terms of actual governance, New Jersey may well have the "sanest" GOP in the country. It's hard to see how Kean and Bramnick could lead the Republican in any other state. I fear this sanity has an expiration date: you cannot run today's Republican Party out of Westfield. You just can't.

As for the craziest: all states with large black populations and large amounts of evangelical whites who vote in reaction to their black neighbors. Georgia is a swing state now, but it's GOP is only slightly less loopy than that of Mississippi and Alabama. North Carolina's is similarly reactionary, while South Carolina long has more a blueblooded-caretaker style-GOP, but perhaps that went away from Haley's radicalism.

[slothdem]

In terms of actual governance, New Jersey may well have the "sanest" GOP in the country. It's hard to see how Kean and Bramnick could lead the Republican in any other state. I fear this sanity has an expiration date: you cannot run today's Republican Party out of Westfield. You just can't.

As for the craziest: all states with large black populations and large amounts of evangelical whites who vote in reaction to their black neighbors. Georgia is a swing state now, but it's GOP is only slightly less loopy than that of Mississippi and Alabama. North Carolina's is similarly reactionary, while South Carolina long has more a blueblooded-caretaker style-GOP, but perhaps that went away from Haley's radicalism.

True. I still think you can run the NJ GOP from Westfield. Westfield is the rich snobby Republican.

Westfield is so Republican that it swung from Obama +3 all the way to Clinton +25! And Biden will carry it by more than 30.

[slothdem]

Virginia’s GOP is politically suicidal compared to some of the other states.

If Hangar and Cox both run they'll split the sane vote and Chase will be the nominee. To avoid this, the mainstream conservatives in the state party should try to get a sentient AR-15 and Stonewall Jackson's corpse on the ballot.