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Carolina Blue

By Robert Stacy McCain on 11.5.08 @ 12:24PM

For my money, the most shocking result of this election was that Obama won North Carolina. Though he won it by a slender 20,000-vote margin, I remind you that Bush beat Kerry by 12 points (440,000 votes) in the Old North State in 2004. Was there any other state that saw a 13-point swing like that?

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Jason| 11.5.08 @ 12:39PM

Bush won Indiana by almost 20% in 2004

Michael Roush| 11.5.08 @ 1:07PM

You are looking at the New South.

Anne| 11.5.08 @ 3:15PM

I'm one of the masses who recently moved here from other places. Unfortunately, many are liberals - sorry, "Progressives", who have grown discontent with the high taxes and ridiculous regulations of their former states and are now proceeding to vote in all those things here, starting with Obama, a Democrat Governor and a new Democrat Senator. We are becoming Massachusetts.

Duh| 11.5.08 @ 3:51PM

TX McCain did 12 worse
NE 17 worse
SD 13 worse
ND 19 worse
MT 15 worse
ID 11 worse
UT 19 worse
IN 20 worse
NC 13 worse
VA 13 worse
MI 13 worse
NV 15 worse
NM 16 worse

That's a dozen states abou as bad or worse than NC, and that's not counting the big Blue States.

Actually more striking than the South is Obama's improved numbers in the West. His supporters were right.

Duh| 11.5.08 @ 4:03PM

CA: -14
WI -13
DE -15
VT -15
OR -12
IL -15
HA -36 (native son, pending brth certificate reveal)

So I think that makes 17 states with as big swings as NC. 10 red states, 7 blue states.

Spicy Joker| 11.5.08 @ 4:24PM

You have to love these people who are already declaring the triumph of liberalism. Obama ran on the feel-good themes of "hope" and "change," not ending the secret ballot in union elections, signing the Freedom of Choice Act, or appointing judges who will declare the death penalty unconstitutional. McCain lost because everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

Dolly| 11.5.08 @ 11:03PM

Hey, what did you expect? The DNC poured $10 million in here for the soul purpose of non-stop 24/7 trashing Elizabeth Dole, who was a weak candidate, at best.
We are overrun with illegals and Yankees who messed up their last nest and now want to mess up this one too.
And the Barry campaign set up 16 offices here in the primary and they never shut down. They poured another $20+ million in here to pay off and bus everyone and their dead brother to the polls for a month!
The only thing that shocks me is that they did not win by 30% or more. They won by only 20,000 votes??
What is that,$1500.00 per winning vote??
Such a deal.