Posted by
Tonewah on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:23:00 PM
I was looking at
Presidential election results from the last 60 years on Wikipedia. It was interesting to note how some states changed from Red to Blue from election to election. I also noticed the colors changed for Republican and Democrat after 1980.
Of particular interest, to me, was to see that my state, Alabama, has sent independent electors to the Electoral College quite a bit in the last 60 years... 4 out of 15 elections. At one point, we had sent 4 out of 7! Over half... that's pretty independent. However, after Reagan, we've seemed content to vote for Republicans. I wonder if the lack of religious conservatives in the 'upper tier' of the party will invoke another independent elector in '08, or if the GOP will figure out it can't win without the south, and nominate one of the 'lower tier' religious conservatives?