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"Will the red state - blue state division be reshuffled in 2008?"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Forget all those decades-old examples. Democrat Christine Gregoire was "elected" Governor of Washington State in 2004 over Republican Rossi when the Democratic machine in Seattle (Metro-King County) used the precise tactic you described. They waited until all the other counties had reported, then faked exactly the right number of ballots to put Gregoire over the top.

3/3/08, 5:51 PM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

I assumed much of the state-level shifting in 1956 was due to Eisenhower's (reluctant) enforcement of Brown v. Board and its unpopularity in the South, and went to the CQ Guide to confirm this.

The story is different, though. Ike improved a few percentage points in almost every Southern state, with two stark exceptions: Mississippi and South Carolina, where "independent" and "unpledged" took many votes from Ike and few from Adlai. Ike's percentage rose significantly in the Northeast, but dropped in almost every state north and west of St Louis. So the shake-up was a (mild) Northwest rebellion, rather than a Southeast one.

3/4/08, 1:38 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's a rare moment in public debate, when rational people discuss a non-trivial topical issue in a meaningful way. deserves elaboration.

3/4/08, 11:18 AM

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