'Red State America' Is No More

Posted by Paul Rosenberg, Open Left at 3:27 PM on January 28, 2009.

According to a Gallup Poll, GOP plurality states have been reduced to a mere handful.

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Gallup has just released "State of the States: Political Party Affiliation", the first in a four-part series to be released this week on Gallup.com, based on Gallup Poll Daily tracking data collected throughout 2008. And the results could not be clearer: GOP plurality states (including leaners) have been reduced to a mere handful: the Mormon mountain heartland, plus Alaska and Nebraska. That's it:

This contrasts sharply with what Gallup found as recently as 2002:

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Tagged as: party, conservatives, gallup, red states, blue states, political affiliation

Paul Rosenberg is a regular blogger for Open Left

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