President Obama Had Best Performance in the South Since Jimmy Carter

[Person Man]

Best performance ever? What about Clinton?

They're measuring by share of the vote and Clinton's numbers were lower because he had Perot in the mix.

Obama was the first President since Reagan to be elected and reelected with a fair-and-square absolute majority of the vote and the first Democratic President since FDR to do so (the only others since FDR were Reagan and Eisenhower). Many say that Clinton wouldn't have won if it wasn't for Perot but I don't think so...would be interesting if someone tried to do the bean counting on that. South Carolina and Georgia might be states, perhaps even better than Arizona (I'm thinking that the Arizona problems are probably due to poor organization than people just not believing Democrats) or Texas (more of the same?)  to look to replace electoral votes that may eventually be losed or challenged in the rust belt...the same way that the Southern Rockies replaced Appilachian votes.

[Person Man]

Best performance?...he still didn't win there....y'all!

Obama actually won the fewest states of any Democrat that actually won the Presidency...still though, the Democrats still need win at least one and perhaps two southern states. However, I think the point is that Obama is paving a way to break up the solid GOP south. Breaking up the solid South and pushing through policies that will break up the dirty energy cartels seem to be a way for Democrats to win most of the time in the first half of the 21st century.  Think of this as the way that Republicans created a majority in the last third of the 20th century through union busting and breaking up the "solid South".