mileslunn
Junior Chimp
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« on: November 20, 2012, 10:57:50 PM » |
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Maryland is more urban and has a larger minority population although Delaware is large too. Never mind if you compare to 2004, Obama still did much better than Kerry in both Delaware and Illinois. The 2008 results were anomalies so I think you saw a return to more normal results albeit on the high side for the Democrats in both states. I think a better question to ask is why the GOP did as bad as it did in Massachusetts (Romney's home state), Michigan (Romney's birth state), and Wisconsin (Ryan's home state). In both Michigan and Wisconsin, Obama did better than both Gore and Kerry despite the fact the GOP ticket in those two had no connection to either state.
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