Most Politically Schizophrenic State?

[Free Bird]

Which State is the worst offender of not being able to make up its mind which side it wants to be on? Even most swing states have some clear trends or preferences overall (Ohio is trending Republican, Nevada Democratic, etc). My vote is for Florida. It has tons of Hispanics, but only votes Democratic occasionally on the Presidential level and for Nelson, meaning the Hispanic population is conservative enough to make it a legitimate tossup every time.

[DavidB.]

Wisconsin (for reasons IndyRep outlined), but Colorado and Missouri are runners-up.

[Skye]

Wisconsin and Florida.

[FDRfan1985]

My home state of Kentucky since it votes Democrats into state offices while voting GOP on a federal level.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

What is "politically schizophrenic"?   The voices in your head do campaign commercials?

[Crumpets]

A lot of states still have a significant amount of ballot splitting, such as Mississippi which has almost uniformly Democratic county officials and Kentucky, which can elect Kim Davis as a Democrat. But in most of these cases, it is because of one party (usually the Democrats) losing their influence in national elections, but maintaining a strong local base. In most of these cases, I suspect, the "new" party will eventually take over most state offices as well.

The one state where I do not see this to be the case is Montana, which is usually pretty Republican nationally, but closely contested on a state-wide and local level. Furthermore, this has been the case for several decades, and I see it continuing for several decades into the future.

[sparkey]

Minnesota comes to mind. Governor Ventura to Governor Pawlenty to Governor Dayton; meanwhile Senator Wellstone to Senator Coleman to Senator Franken.

[Taco Truck 🚚]

Which State is the worst offender of not being able to make up its mind which side it wants to be on?

That's not what Schizphrenic means.

My vote is for Florida. It has tons of Hispanics, but only votes Democratic occasionally on the Presidential level and for Nelson, meaning the Hispanic population is conservative enough to make it a legitimate tossup every time.

FYI...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/opinion/why-are-cubans-so-special.html?ref=opinion&_r=1

Republican version of "diversity."

[Figueira]

It depends on what period of time we're talking about, but Iowa has had some pretty wild shifts over the past 60 or so years.

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FL, I guess.

[TJ in Oregon]

I have no idea why people are picking Flordia. It seems like a pretty normal swing state with pretty normal politicians on each side. The partisan demographics are a little quirky with the Cubans, retired Jews, and rural southerners, but it doesn't seem to have crazy ideological polarization moreso than the country as a whole.

Wisconsin is a great answer. Madison and Waukesha really are the ideological singularities.

[Orser67]

Minnesota and Wisconsin both seem like good states, but I'll add Maine. In the past six years they've voted for Paul LePage, Susan Collins, Angus King, and Barack Obama. That's a tea party Republican, a moderate Republican, a left-leaning independent, and a left-leaning Democrat.

[ElectionsGuy]

We really are schizophrenic. Can't get much farther apart than Walker and Baldwin.

[Higgs]

Wisconsin and Colorado