I'm kind of disappointed in how few Biden states I've been to.

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

After 2016 I got really upset realizing I've only been to three Hillary states as an adult: Minnesota, Illinois and Colorado. Seriously of all the places I've been. It was so depressing.

Well I thought it would be better...but the list is now just those three plus Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia. Well actually Nebraska's 2nd district too.

But still, that's a pretty paltry number of all the places I've been to. Ugh!

Meanwhile in 2009 I was really excited that I could drive to Dude Fest in Indianapolis without leaving an Obama state no matter which route I took. Actually I'm pretty sure the only Obama state I ever visited during his first term was North Dakota.

[ProgressiveModerate]

I'm the opposite to you; the only Trump state I've seriously spent time in is FL.

Literally all the states I "regularly" go to in non-COVID years are like all the liberal beacons in the country.

States I've spent the most time in in order:

NY
NJ
CA
MA
WA
DC (Not a state but you know)
OR
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After that pretty much every other place I've been has been a one-off sort of thing

What's funny too is I actually go to some very conservative pockets of these states.

[Torie]

Eat your heart out that you do not live in the center of the universe of Biden states.

[AGA]

Haven't been to a Trump 2020 state since 2011.

[Mr. Morden]

I guess the only Biden states I've never set foot in are Hawaii, Oregon, and Rhode Island.  Though in a few of the states I'm counting as having visited, it was just an airport layover, or just driving through and stopping for gas.

The last time I visited a Trump state was when I was in Fargo, ND in January 2015 (before Trump ever actually ran for president).  Though for part of the time in the intervening years I was living in Australia, so not really doing much in the way of visiting *any* US states.

[TDAS04]

I haven’t been to a Biden state since 2019.  I was in Pipestone, MN at the end of that year, which is an extremely Trumpy county.

[25 Abril/Aprile Sempre!]

I haven't been to a Biden state since last February. Of course, I haven't been to a Trump state since last February either.

Speaking of home, I am pretty sure I haven't been to a region with a centre-left governor since last June when I made a random trip to Emilia-Romagna (Parma precisely). Ah, in 2019/2020 I used to go to a centre-left region almost every day... but now my university lessons are all online because of COVID.

[Transgender for Everybody]

I haven't been to a Biden state in a year and a half.

[KoopaDaQuick]

I haven't been to a Biden state in a year and a half.

[brucejoel99]

I've haven't been to a Biden state in 51 weeks, though I've been living in Biden's best area of a Trump state for 11 months.

[25 Abril/Aprile Sempre!]

I've haven't been to a Biden state in 51 weeks, though I've been living in Biden's best area of a Trump state for 11 months.

Since when do you live in Gadsden County?

[brucejoel99]

I've haven't been to a Biden state in 51 weeks, though I've been living in Biden's best area of a Trump state for 11 months.

Since when do you live in Gadsden County?

Touche.

[OBD]

I haven't been to a Trump 2020 state since late 2018, though I did pass through Pennsylvania in summer 2019.

Actually I don't believe I've stepped out of Oregon this year, and I spent the overwhelming majority of 2020 in the state as well.

[muon2]

I remain amused at the self-selection of travel based on the political leanings of the route or destination. One may note that I regularly report the CD's I've traveled through (back at least to 2010), and AFAIK I haven't noted in those posts the party of the Congressperson. When I travel, I'd much rather see the country as it is on the ground and not as it plays out in Washington. I will argue with anyone that it is foolish to ascribe much about an area without actually visiting it.

[Chips]

The only Biden state I've been to is PA.

[Alben Barkley]

The map if Biden only won the states I've been to:



Needless to say, I've spent considerably more time in the eastern US than the West, and specifically in Appalachia, the Mid-Alantic, Southeast, and (parts of) the Midwest/Rust Belt.

Still, would be enough to win (and by more than he actually did). I wonder what kind of crazy scenario could result in such a map?

Anyway, by my count the total number of Biden states there is 10 + DC vs. 11 Trump states. So actually very evenly split.

[Sopranos Republican]

I’ve actually never been to a Trump 2020 state, and the only Trump 2016 state I’ve been to is Pennsylvania. #NewEnglandMasterRace

[Rand]

Man, some of you need to get out more.

The only difference between a Biden state and a Trump state is gas will cost you twice as much in a Biden state—which is probably why some of you never travel.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

90%: Last Visited 2021
80%: Last Visited 2020
70% Last Visited 2019
60%: Last Visited 2018
50%: Last Visited 2017
40%: Last Visited 2016 or earlier
30%: Only passed through or had an airport layover

Trump 229, Clinton 165
Biden 217, Trump 177

[GeorgiaModerate]

I did the map a little differently; yellow shows the places I haven't been to.  Glad to see that I've been to enough Biden states to give him an EC majority.

[ponderosa peen 🌲]

I'm kind of disappointed in how many useless threads of yours I've read.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

I haven't been to a Trump 2020 state in almost a decade, although I've been to ME-02 within the past four years, and used to I go to a Trump 2016 state (Pennsylvania) semi-frequently.

[Хahar 🤔]

My movement has been at a virtual halt on account of Vermont's travel rules. It's effectively a ban on out-of-state travel with my wife, who works in a plant and would have to quarantine for two weeks on our return. As a member of the work-from-home petty aristocracy, work is no obstacle to going wherever I want - but what would I do there?

There's not much reason to stay overnight anywhere else within the state. We can reach almost any point within a day of driving and there's nothing do other than snowshoeing.

It's not booking a room for what passes for a night out in 2021. Besides, the last time I had a meal in Burlington they served me raw chicken and the parking garage attempted to compel me into downloading an app. That was after failing to get a table at my favorite Indian place because the building was on fire. That's not an experience that I care to repeat.

Hotels were only fun when everyone else was afraid to travel and eerily empty ski resorts were offering once-in-a-lifetime cut-rate accommodations. Many of the cheaper hotels have become semi-permanent housing for indigents. I don't use Airbnb: All of the stupid comments that edgy leftists make about landlords are categorically true of "hosts." They should be run out of town on a rail.

Anyway, all of this explains how I have only slept in eight distinct counties over the past year - only one of them during the past month! Among them the Biden-Trump split is even:

Biden 76-22 (VT)
Biden 55-42 (ME)
Biden 53-44 (VT)
Biden 51-46 (VT)
Trump 54-45 (SC)
Trump 58-39 (NY)
Trump 58-41 (FL)
Trump 61-38 (SC)

We could give the tiebreaker to Biden because one of Trump's counties falls in a Biden state.

This has made me curious about where I've slept in the last year:

County	State	D	R
El Paso	TX	66.8	31.6
Fulton	GA	72.6	26.2
Santa Clara	CA	72.6	25.2
Palm Beach	FL	56.0	43.2
Leon	FL	63.3	35.1
Greenville	SC	39.9	58.1
Shelby	TN	64.4	34.0
Oklahoma	OK	48.1	49.2
Bernalillo	NM	61.0	36.6
Mohave	AZ	23.7	74.9

As far as states where I've been, Biden doesn't quite have enough to pull out a victory without New England:

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

They aren't sad, so it's okay

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Using ExtremeRepublican's shading method based on how long ago I've been there. I've been stuck at 50% reporting for a few years now...



Joe Biden 233, Donald Trump 124 - WA + MI + MN is the most likely path to securing a Biden 270 map