One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

Posted by Steve Smith on Nov 04, 2012; 10:03pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/One-State-Two-State-Red-State-Blue-State-tp7580935.html

Thanks to Doug for reminding us of the Iowa Markets...

I would LOVE to see the Red team take it in the shorts to the tune of 70/30 or better yet 80/20... and the possibility that some *other* factionization would result, or better yet, room for third and fourth (I *like* the Green platform and I *like* much of the Libertarian platform).  Not without runoffs or similar though.

(1984 Presidential electoral college map).

Could a landslide for the progressives as big as that for the conservatives in 1984 change the face of politics in the US?  It didn't in 1984.  Not for long really. 

Unless it caused a different axis of factionation?   Could right to choose refer to guns, marital partners and recreational drugs as well as abortions (along with embracing the acute responsibilities that come with such extreme topics)?  Could personal responsibility refer to each of social, environmental and fiscal?   Could smaller government be about streamlining things *best* done by government rather than outsourcing everything to bloated monopolistic corporations and trusts of corporations (e.g. halliburton/bechtel/blackwater, drug companies, insurance companies, ???).

Probably not, but hope springs infernal!
 - Steve

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