The New York Times had a full page spread showing the state by state breakdown on Dem vs Republican states in every presidential election going back to the early part of the last century. The country seems to flip flop blue and red every 20 years or so. Ranging from the solid red of Reagan to the nearly solid blue of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson This year things looked mighty red in the south and the west but give it 20 years of population shifting and it may be solid blue again. Reno is already becoming East San Francisco... The reality is we need both sides. You know you don't really want to live in a country dominated by conservative religious individuals, you know it would look like Taliban Afghanistan or 1980 Iran. It goes the same for the ultra liberals, we'd end up in some version of Soviet style sillyness like Nepal seems to be headed for. I guess that makes me a Neutralist! Maybe I should start a new moderate party.