Nogals, really you have no clue... What's wrong with America is that it's 17 trillion in debt and people like YOU advocate not voting for the only candidate that can and will fix it. At least most of the Reps will attempt to, not like Clinton who is running on a platform of more Obamarism "except shes a woman".
The Grandest Of Wake Up Calls: 12/15/2015 00:33:01
btw - why there is no map "democrats vs republicans"? it could contain those funny elephant and donkey divided into samller territories?? And maybe White House between them?
Or sth like that:
Come on Murica- make that map!!
The Grandest Of Wake Up Calls: 12/15/2015 00:48:47
I'm from Ohio. We had to learn about he U.S. presidents "from" Ohio in school. We had three in a row. Someone shot the third one. So Ohio took a break after that.
8 presidents overall. 7 were republicans. One was from the whig party (I know, right!).
When I say "from" I mean it in the weakest possible sense. - Banjamin Harrison was born in Ohio but really lived in Indiana. - We stole W.H. Harrison from Virginia or something. ...it's a Harrison thing.
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The Grandest Of Wake Up Calls: 12/15/2015 02:55:08
Generally, states aren't politically classified based on all 50-250 years of their history, since we've gone through multiple re-alignments.
Like most states, Ohio has historically voted Republican more than it has Democratic- as we've had more Republican presidents than Democratic ones. However, again, if we're discussing the political classification of states in any modern contexts, usually only the last decade's worth of presidential elections is considered.
If you adjust the timeframe, you can arrive at any result. Last two elections? Overwhelmingly Democratic. Last four? Split. In the 2000's? Overwhemingly Republican? (That said, the margin of victory was low each time- as you would expect from a swing state).
All Texan-born Presidents have been Democratic (LBJ; oddly enough, in our history books, we honestly don't really count the Bushes- I lived 5mi or so away from Bush 41 and we still didn't consider him a Texan). That does not make Texas a Democratic state. California's last President- Reagan- was a Republican- but California has been Democratic in the past few elections (supplying a very large portion of the Democrats' support and becoming the poster child for liberal economic and environmental policy) although California has historically voted Republican very often- just taking a short break during the first half of the Fifth Party System because party re-alignments are a thing and the Republicans and Democrats both shifted in the 1990s to the point it doesn't make sense to base states' political classifications based on pre-Bush 41 voting patterns.
Edit: Also I'd rather die from ebola than be from Ohio.
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The Grandest Of Wake Up Calls: 12/15/2015 03:34:06
@Scotty: LBJ is the only "true" Texan president since he's the only one who was born and bred Texan. Bush family's just a bunch of Yankee impostors. That's just the standard narrative.
The Grandest Of Wake Up Calls: 12/15/2015 06:00:22
That's the fun thing about Texas, the only native-born Texan president is the one everyone hates, and by everyone I mean just about everyone outside the liberal cores, just go find a map, select every region in texas that votes more than 80% democrat, and that's a liberal core if it isn't on the border to find them, which is kinda funny.