Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)jeepers
(314 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I probably should say North-Central California, since I'm sure more Californians will be along soon.
minivan2
(214 posts)From Southern California, specifically red Orange County.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]How cool is that?
WillyT
(72,631 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,504 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Yes, there are Democrats in Alabama!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)If that counts, than we're good!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,504 posts)cringing with the Celtics, not sure about the Bruins - and looking forward to the next stretch of Pats games!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Sound off
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Lehigh Valley
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Just subscribed.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Red part of the buckeye state, sad to say.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)Florida.
demwing
(16,916 posts)I live in the Historic Kenwood area
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)St. Pete has come a long way in the 40 years I've lived here.
calikid
(625 posts)Alittleliberal
(528 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Alittleliberal
(528 posts)Or the Hudson valley and it's just easier to tell folks it's upstate?
#newyorkproblems
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)a half but love it.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)wavesofeuphoria
(525 posts)Autumn
(46,333 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Because he's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh darn, people like him.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Some of us ended up with a deuce. A Repuke named Doug Ducey at that, (Governor race)
Have no Idea about the Barber -McSally race yet. Auto recount under way. Some 200 ballots found. Fingers crossed! GO RON!!!!!
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I can't help but be happy about Franken. And honestly, I think there could be something to learn about how he campaigned, and why he succeeded when other Dems didn't.
I don't want to gloat, however. Please accept my sincere condolences for your loss.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)It was just a very bad election. But Ron Barber is still fighting!
TM99
(8,352 posts)I am an Independent appalled at Ducey's win.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)dflprincess
(28,475 posts)where my once red suburban state senate district not only went with Franken and Dayton it also returned two DFLers back to the State House of Representatives.
Sadly, though it stuck with Erik Paulsen for 3rd District Congress. Probably because the SOB has an undeserved reputation as a moderate and does his best to avoid face to face meeting with voters and anyone who dares run against him. Something those who are not active in politics would be aware of. (And he runs such nice ads with his lovely family - who could help but like him )
Chathamization
(1,638 posts)ms liberty
(9,828 posts)tosh
(4,446 posts)with Georgia (SW) as well.
Segami
(14,923 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Change has come
(2,372 posts)I'm in Northern Nevada. It would be great to have someone from Vegas too.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The half with trees.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Martin Eden
(13,471 posts)Downers Grove, a suburb in DuPage County, west of Chicago (grew up near Midway Airport on Chicago's southwest side).
hedda_foil
(16,502 posts)I'm just a bit West of you: Naperville/Lisle.
Martin Eden
(13,471 posts)Mostly red suburb in a blue state, but we finally got rid of Biggert and re-elected Foster!
I wrote Biggert a letter in the fall of 2003 imploring her not to vote for the IWR that gave GW Bush the green light to invade Iraq. Of course she voted for it, and her reply letter to me (probably the same position paper she sent en masse) explained we needed to invade Iraq because 9/11 showed the deadly combination of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. I excoriated her for insulting the intelligence of voters, pointing out that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and those terrorists were armed with box cutters.
hedda_foil
(16,502 posts)I used to have Biggert too. Then the Illinois dems squeezed the reddest bits of DuPage into one district (with my neighborhood included). And they gifted us with Peter Roskam (R- ALEC).
zipplewrath
(16,692 posts)The I-4 corridor.
Jake2413
(228 posts)Euphoria
(448 posts)bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)hedda_foil
(16,502 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)think
(11,641 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)Buried in a snow bank.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)onecaliberal
(35,835 posts)Rhiannon12866
(222,238 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)TBF
(34,317 posts)the large cities here all vote blue.
2012 for Obama:
* Travis County, home to Austin, the state's most liberal city. Romney trailed with just over 36 percent of the vote.
* Dallas County appears to be on its way to becoming almost as reliably Democrat. Obama took just over 57 percent of the vote to Romney's nearly 42 percent.
* Bexar County (San Antonio), Obama tallied nearly 52 percent to Romney's 47 percent. --> this is where Julian Castro served as mayor before being tapped for HUD
* Harris County - Around Houston, for example, Romney took 52 percent of the vote in Fort Bend County, 66 percent in Brazoria County and nearly 80 percent of the vote in Montgomery County. --> I am in Brazoria (worked on the campaign in 2008 - we lost to Hillary in Brazoria. Latina women especially loved Hillary).
Issues in Texas include gerrymandering and limiting access to vote. But the biggest issue with Texas is demographics. This is a very large state and it will take a couple more cycles for the old white folks to die out in numbers significant enough to put Texas in play ... the younger generations are majority latino/black/asian.
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-demographics-by-age-group-2013-3
graphic:
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Adopted country
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)(I took a break for a while, so didn't know about the group until today. Glad to see it!)