Painting America Purple

[rodeodance]

Dan Balz's Take
Painting America Purple
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/12/the_purpling_of_america.html

Can Rudy Giuliani, seen here campaigning in South Carolina, really change the electoral map or is America moving in the other direction. (AP).

After a decade of red and blue politics, the electoral map for 2008 may be turning purple.

The latest evidence comes from a Washington Post poll of Virginia, which shows Democrats in very strong shape heading into an election with an open Senate seat and one of the most important presidential campaigns in memory.

But that is simply one more data point in a growing body of evidence suggesting that, depending on the Republican and Democratic nominees, more states could be genuinely contested in 2008 than in any recent campaign.

They includes southern states like Virginia or Arkansas, mountain states like Colorado, Nevada and Arizona, all of which Republicans have dominated in recent presidential campaigns but which Democrats will target in 2008. It also could include states that have been solidly Democratic of late, like California or New Jersey, which could be up for grabs if Rudy Giuliani is the Republican nominee.

[Demeter]

1. God, I HOPE Not!

For the country to turn to Giuliani would mean it's past time to leave.