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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[GlyphGryph]

California is... not a liberal state. Not the way other liberal states are.

It's really it's own place, with it's own almost equal liberal/conservative split that breaks down along different lines than elsewhere. It's got Liberal bastions, but it's got Conservative bastions in big businesses like Hollywood too.

[misko27]

Republican New york. That assumes such a massive number of things I want to slap you silly.
 
It asumes the upstate grows. It assumes they don't continue their current trend of growing liberalism. It says The City either doesn't grow significantly or that it goes republican, both pretty much unfeasible.  @#!*%  dude, you can get away with being a god-damned socialist here. It's more democrat then Washington is grid-locked.
 
Even the Wall Streeters don't pretend they are right here. Hell, the only place with conseratives in this city is Staten Island. Have you ever even  heard of Staten island?

[freeformschooler]

Even the Wall Streeters don't pretend they are right here. Hell, the only place with conseratives in this city is Staten Island. Have you ever even  heard of Staten island?

I will say you're wrong there. My best friend lives in Jewish Brooklyn, and - pardon my sacrilege - he's had one Hell of a time growing up gay in a community that beat him up in elementary school, looked down on him in middle school and flat-out rejected him from Shul many times.

Of course, it's still a minority group, but it's there.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

California is... not a liberal state. Not the way other liberal states are.

California may not be a liberal state, but it is definitely not a Republican state.

Even the Wall Streeters don't pretend they are right here. Hell, the only place with conseratives in this city is Staten Island. Have you ever even  heard of Staten island?

I will say you're wrong there. My best friend lives in Jewish Brooklyn, and - pardon my sacrilege - he's had one Hell of a time growing up gay in a community that beat him up in elementary school, looked down on him in middle school and flat-out rejected him from Shul many times.

Of course, it's still a minority group, but it's there.

Do the Haredi even vote?

[freeformschooler]

Do the Haredi even vote?

Apparently. I got to overhear a fun argument through Skype with his parents freaking out after finding out he went behind their backs and voted Obama instead of Romney.

[Max White]

See that is weird, because the rest of the world tends to see US as this highly polarized country with the Texas Republican vs. the California Liberal.
Next thing you will be telling me that evolution is taught more strongly in Texas than anywhere else...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Do the Haredi even vote?

Apparently. I got to overhear a fun argument through Skype with his parents freaking out after finding out he went behind their backs and voted Obama instead of Romney.

I'm surprised that they'd like Romney, given the LDS Church's penchant for baptizing dead Jews as Mormons, which has gotten them in trouble before.

Next thing you will be telling me that evolution is taught more strongly in Texas than anywhere else...

Evolution is taught everywhere in the US.

[misko27]

Do the Haredi even vote?

Apparently. I got to overhear a fun argument through Skype with his parents freaking out after finding out he went behind their backs and voted Obama instead of Romney.

I'd love to have heard it.
 
Err, don't bring up that particular Hasidic community. They pretty  @#!*%  die-hard. Currently engaged in war with the District attorney's office for protecting pedophiles. They supported Anthony Weiner, member him? And There is always a trickle of stories about women having problems there.
 
But they are pretty self-contained.
 
 

[Reelya]

The mind just boggles trying to make sense of GreatJustice's map, either way you read the colors :/

The entire West Coast, New York State and Nevada switch to Republican, whilst Alaska, as well as bible-belt states like Alabama Georgia and South Carolina become Democrat strongholds? :/

[freeformschooler]

Do the Haredi even vote?

Apparently. I got to overhear a fun argument through Skype with his parents freaking out after finding out he went behind their backs and voted Obama instead of Romney.

I'm surprised that they'd like Romney, given the LDS Church's penchant for baptizing dead Jews as Mormons, which has gotten them in trouble before.

I suspect it's more like it is in my town.

"I support Romney! He agrees with the things I believe in!"
"...But he's Mormon."
"Well, he's against gay marriage and socialism!"

[tryrar]

...GJ, I'm going to have to ask you to explain, IN DETAIL, how on earth that map of yours could even POSSIBLY come to pass, even given changing political trends as you said; You'd have to give a bit more detail than THAT when you whip out a map of such drastic change. Otherwise, I'm going to have to hammer the bullshit alert oh so very hard

[misko27]

Could someone, for our edification, add up the Blue and Red totals?

[FearfulJesuit]

It's not possible. There are some choices that make no sense no matter how you slice it. Mississippi is a red party stronghold, but Alabama is basically the darkest blue state in the country? Where is that split coming from?

The map was so nonsensical that I decided to immortalize it forever in the OP...

[Max White]

Perhaps somebody looked at IQ by state and made higher than average red and lower than average blue because dem darn liberals dun no shit! Right?

[tryrar]

Ok, according to that ludicrous map, we have 220 solid republican votes, 209 democrat votes, and 110 swing votes. WTF